A Study of Virginia Woolf's View of History (english)
by Zhu Haifeng
About This Novel
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), a master of British modernist literature in the 20th century, devoted her life to the innovation of novel creation and promoted the development of modernist literature. She also wrote about historical events such as war, the feminist movement, homosexuality, and the decline of the British Empire in her era. Woolf's modernist works seem to be divorced from historical background, but in fact they are rooted in the historical reality of modernity, and they are also an effective means of narrating history. This monograph comprehensively studies Woolf's diaries, autobiographies, letters, speeches, literary reviews, and historical documents such as Woolf's biography, notes, archival materials, and manuscripts, and reorganizes the family history, social history, and British Empire history that Woolf experienced in the real world. At the same time, this monograph adopts the New Historicist perspectives of Greenblatt, Hayden White, and Montrose to examine Woolf's modernist novels in the historical and cultural context. It examines Woolf's historical writing on the family history of her parents, siblings, the social history of the feminist movement, homosexuality, and class conflict, as well as the history of colonial independence and the British Empire in the two world wars, thereby exploring Woolf's historical views, historical narrative views, and historical writing strategies.
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