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Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity
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This book explores how Woolf's engagement with science influenced her novels of the 1930s and 1940s, tracing the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity and highlighting the shared concept of modern science undermining individualized conceptions of the self. It broadens our understanding of the relationship between modernism, radio, and science.
Format: Hardback
Length: 274 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
This book provides a comprehensive examination of Woolf's engagement with science, highlighting its pivotal role in constructing identity in her novels from the 1930s to the 1940s. Through a detailed analysis of BBC scientific radio broadcasts, it reveals an unexplored source of Woolf's scientific knowledge. By tracing the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity, it sheds light on a shared concept across multiple disciplines during the modernist period: the notion that modern science challenged individualized notions of self. This study broadens our understanding of the relationship between modernism, radio, science, and Woolf's later novels, emphasizing the significance of science in her literary works.
This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science, demonstrating that science is integral to the construction of identity in her novels of the 1930s and 1940s. It identifies a little-explored source for Woolf's scientific knowledge: BBC scientific radio broadcasts. By analyzing this unstudied primary material, it traces the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity and highlights a single concept that is shared across multiple disciplines in the modernist period: the idea that modern science undermined individualized conceptions of the self. It broadens our understanding of the relationship between modernism and radio, modernism and science, and demonstrates the importance of science to Woolf's later novels.
Weight: 502g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781316514078
Edition number: New ed
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