Virginia Woolf and Futurity - Couverture rigide

Phillips, Joshua

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1399538330 ISBN 13 : 9781399538336

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Re-evaluates the writings of Virginia Woolf through the lens of futurity

• Draws on previously underexamined or unexamined archival documents by Woolf
• Reads Woolf alongside a range of twentieth century and contemporary philosophers
• Examines futurity in Woolf’s writing through a variety of theoretical approaches
• Offers a novel reading of Woolf with the works of Ernst Bloch

How did Virginia Woolf conceive of the future, of that which is to come? Joshua Phillips argues that Woolf had a lifelong interest in questions of the future – of how people, things, objects and words endure into an unknown futurity, and in more practical questions of how to make the future a better place, free from the strictures of patriarchy and militarism. Virginia Woolf and Futurity demonstrates how these questions recur across Woolf’s novels and short stories, from her earliest writings to the final drafts which she left unfinished at the end of her life, and how questions of futurity find multivalent and paradoxical forms throughout her writing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joshua Phillips is a Senior Researcher in Modernist Genetic Criticism and Virginia Woolf Studies at the University of Antwerp. He is the editor of The Digital ‘Anon’, a digital edition of Virginia Woolf’s final, unfinished essay drafts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1399538330
• ISBN 13: 9781399538336
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 228
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• Personne responsable: non disponible