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In foregrounding fashion’s involvement with nationalist and corporatist political movements, this chapter on Virginia Woolf focuses on her 1930s writing—especially The Years (1937)...

This chapter considers two of Virginia Woolf’s most experimental texts, her Nurse Lugton story for children and her novel The Waves. The first catalogues an awareness of the way th...

The monograph presents the most interesting events, trends in the social development of Virginia mainly of the XVIII century, the brightest period in the early history of America. ...

Chapter 1 explores Woolf’s writings up to the end of 1925 in relation to scientific ideas on wave-particle duality, providing the ‘retrospect of Woolf’s earlier novels’ which Micha...

Modernist Physics takes as its focus the ideas associated with three scientific papers published by Albert Einstein in 1905, considering the dissemination of those ideas both withi...

Chapter 2 looks at Woolf’s writings from 1926 onwards in relation to both Louis de Broglie’s work on the wave-particle duality of radiation and matter and, more significantly, Niel...

Drawing connections between Freudian psychoanalysis, Virginia Woolf’s criticism and fiction, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology, The Ethics of Immediacy recounts the far-rea...

Reaching beyond politics and law, this book focuses on Thomas Jefferson as an aesthetic classicist. Jefferson embraced the influence of antiquity through his adoption of class...