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Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity Catriona Livingstone

Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity By Catriona Livingstone

Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone


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This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science, and identifies a little-explored source for Woolf's scientific knowledge early BBC science broadcasts. It will therefore be of value to scholars working on modernist literature, and on literature and science.

Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity Summary

Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone

This book offers an extensive analysis of Woolf's engagement with science. It demonstrates that science is integral to the construction of identity in Woolf's novels of the 1930s and 1940s, and identifies a little-explored source for Woolf's scientific knowledge: BBC scientific radio broadcasts. By analyzing this unstudied primary material, it traces the application of scientific concepts to questions of identity and highlights a single concept that is shared across multiple disciplines in the modernist period: the idea that modern science undermined individualized conceptions of the self. It broadens our understanding of the relationship between modernism and radio, modernism and science, and demonstrates the importance of science to Woolf's later novels.

About Catriona Livingstone

Catriona Livingstone's work has appeared in Women: A Cultural Review, Woolf Studies Annual, and the Journal of Literature and Science. She co-organised the 2017 British Society for Literature and Science Winter Symposium, and was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Journal of Literature and Science/BSLS Essay Prize in 2017.

Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Schrodinger's Woolf: Quantum physics and identity; 2. 'Unity dispersity': Neurological communities; 3. 'Our senses have widened': Woolf and radio; 4. Tigers under our hats: Alternative evolutionary identities; Conclusion.

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NPB9781316514078
9781316514078
1316514072
Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity by Catriona Livingstone
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2022-02-17
274
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