Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science : The Aesthetics of Astronomy

Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science : The Aesthetics of Astronomy

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'... provides important new cultural and popular contexts in which to read Woolf.' Yearbook of English Studies

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Holly Henry investigates how advances in astronomy in the early twentieth century influenced Woolf's literature and aesthetics and the work of such modernist British writers as Vita Sackville-West, H.G. Wells, and T.S. Eliot. In re-evaluating the cultural context out of which Modernism emerged, Henry contends that Woolf formulated a global vision that helped shape her fiction and her pacifist politics through her fascination with astronomy. Henry's study includes revealing examinations of unpublished scientific and literary archival material.

Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science : The Aesthetics of Astronomy

Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science: The Aesthetics of Astronomy,Holly Henry,Cambridge University Press,0521812976,1882-1941,20th century,Astronomy,Astronomy in literature,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Great Britain,History,Knowledge,Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature and science,Woolf, Virginia,,British Isles,English,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literary studies: from c 1900 -,Woolf, Virginia

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