Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science
The Aesthetics of Astronomy
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- Author: Holly Henry, California State University, San Bernardino
- Date Published: September 2009
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521119870
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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 Henry's study includes revealing examinations of unpublished scientific and literary archival material.
Read more- Combines research of, until its first publication in 2003, unpublished literary and scientific papers and correspondence with literary readings of Woolf's texts
- Offers a lively investigation of the public response to the increasingly important field of astronomy in the 1920s
- Well illustrated
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"Readers of Henry's book will take away an enhanced understanding of how Woolf's aesthetic practice became imbricated with the scientific discourse of her day...Virginia Woolf and the Discourse of Science valuably demonstrates Woolf's creative response to an evolving picture of a peripheral and fragile earth." English Literature in Transition 1880-1920
See more reviews"Henry's book offers a useful new lens through which to view Woolf's narrative experiments. More than that, it is a fascinating compendium of details about early 20th century popular interest in astronomy and how that interest changed how people - and modern writers - saw themselves in relation to the universe." Woolf Studies Annual
"Henry's book is lucid, informative, and meticulously well researched. Essential." Choice
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- Date Published: September 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521119870
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.34kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction: formulating a global aesthetic
1. Stars and nebulae in popular culture
2. From Edwin Hubble's telescope to Virginia Woolf's 'searchlight'
3. 'Solid objects in a solid universe': the globe and Woolf's deployment of multiple perspectives
4. 'Talk about the riddle of the universe': traversing the discourses of science and art in The Waves
5. From galactic expanses to earth: Woolf and Stapledon envision new worlds
6. Woolf's global vision: Three Guineas and the politics of science
Bibliography
Index.
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