Virginia Woolf was not a religious person in any traditional sense,
yet she lived and worked in an environment rich with religious
thought, imagination, and debate. From her agnostic parents to her
evangelical grandparents, an aunt who was a Quaker theologian, and
her friendship with T. S. Eliot, Woolf's personal circle was filled
with atheists, agnostics, religious scholars, and Christian
converts. In this book, Stephanie Paulsell considers how the
religious milieu that Woolf inhabited shaped her writing in
unexpected and innovative ways. Beginning with the religious forms
and ideas that Woolf encountered in her family, friendships,
travels, and reading, Paulsell explores the religious contexts of
Woolf's life. She shows that Woolf engaged with religion in many
ways, by studying, reading, talking and debating, following
controversies, and thinking about the relationship between religion
and her own work. Paulsell examines the ideas about God that hover
around Woolf's writings and in the minds of her characters. She
also considers how Woolf, drawing from religious language and
themes in her novels and in her reflections on the practices of
reading and writing, created a literature that did, and continues
to do, a particular kind of religious work. A thought-provoking
contribution to the literature on Woolf and religion, this book
highlights Woolf's relevance to our post-secular age. In addition
to fans of Woolf, scholars and general readers interested in
religious and literary studies will especially enjoy Paulsell's
well-researched narrative.
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