Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History

1. Introduction: Reading Virginia Woolf in Constellation with Walter Benjamin
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2. Modernity, Modernism and the Past
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3. Theories of History, Models of Historiography
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4. Antiquity and Modernity: Jacob’s Room and the ‘Greek Myth’
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5. Historical Fictions, Fictional Fashions and Time: Orlando as the ‘Angel of History’
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6. Natural History and Historical Nature in To the Lighthouse and Other Fiction
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7. Dreaming, History and the Visions of the Obscure in The Years
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8. This Stage of History: Between the Acts and the Destruction of Tradition
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9. A ‘Common History’: Anonymous Artists, Communal Collectivities
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Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Gender Studies, Fiction, Literary Theory