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Article: Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. (book review)
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Edited by Pamela Caughie. Border Crossings Series, Volume 6. New York: Garland Publishers, 2000. xxxvi + 310 pages.
If the industry of Woolf criticism is considered a barometer for trends in twentieth-century literary criticism, then Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction represents a fresh and intriguing development. At mid-century, scholars explicated Woolf's novels in terms of their messages and literary techniques, while the last few decades have seen an emphasis on identity politics and biographical studies. Recently criticism has taken a turn toward "ruminations on a theme," where an anthology takes up a specific, as-yet-unexplored idea from ...