Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

Download or read book Virginia Woolf in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction written by Pamela Caughie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of ten original essays is the first to read Virginia Woolf through the prism of our technological present. Expanding on the work of feminist and cultural critics of the past two decades, this volume offers a sustained reflection on the relationship between Walter Benjamin's analyses of mass culture and technology and Woolf's cultural productions of the 1920s and 1930s. It also brings out the extent to which Woolf was beginning to image the technological society then taking shape. This book takes part in contemporary efforts to rethink modernism as a more globalized and technologized phenomenon