The essay examines Virgiania Woolf's last novel, Between the Acts, with reference to her lifelong involvement with history and history-writing. The critical issue of history (not only as account of the past, but also as the present moment) was dealt with by Woolf according to different concepts: firstly as traditional history, the lives of great men in Carlylean style; then Herstory, or history seen from a gendered (feminine) point of view; lastly, in this novel, history as the product of many documents, among which newspaper reports, the radio, photographs, laws, letters, or, as Woolf says, "history in the raw."
Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts:History, Herstory, 'History in the Raw' / F. Orestano - In: History and narration: looking back from the twentieth century / [a cura di] M. Bignami, F. Orestano, A. Vescovi. - Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011. - ISBN 9781443831635. - pp. 85-107
Virginia Woolf's 'Between the Acts:History, Herstory, 'History in the Raw'
F. OrestanoPrimo
2011
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The essay examines Virgiania Woolf's last novel, Between the Acts, with reference to her lifelong involvement with history and history-writing. The critical issue of history (not only as account of the past, but also as the present moment) was dealt with by Woolf according to different concepts: firstly as traditional history, the lives of great men in Carlylean style; then Herstory, or history seen from a gendered (feminine) point of view; lastly, in this novel, history as the product of many documents, among which newspaper reports, the radio, photographs, laws, letters, or, as Woolf says, "history in the raw."
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