Criticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as
either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In this 2007 book,
Steve Ellis argues that her commitment to anxiety about modernity
coexists with a nostalgia and respect for aspects of Victorian
culture threatened by radical social change. Ellis tracks Woolf's
response to the Victorian era through her fiction and other
writings, arguing that Woolf can be seen as more 'Post-Victorian'
than 'modernist'. He explains how Woolf's emphasis on continuity
and reconciliation related to twentieth-century debates about
Victorian values, and he analyses her response to the First World
War as the major threat to that continuity. This detailed and
original investigation of the range of Woolf's writing attends to
questions of cultural and political history and fictional
structure, imagery and diction. It proposes a fresh reading of
Woolf's thinking about the relationships between the past, present
and future.
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