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Article: THE VICTORIAN VIRGINIA WOOLF.(Virginia Woolf and the Victorians)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
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- March 22, 2009
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Virginia Woolf and the Victorians. Steve Ellis. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]45.00 (US$85.00). xi + 211 pages. ISBN 0-978-521-88289-7.
The Victorians have long since faded into a past which cannot be measured by years, whereas Virginia Woolf (who died in 1941) sometimes may seem quite close to us. The changing nature of relations between gender and class continues in the terms Virginia Woolf understood. Famously she declared that human nature had changed. We live within that change. Modernist aesthetics in her world-view were a greater revolution than anything in the political world. A revolution, however, is made by those who have lived before ...