Virginia Woolf and a sense of time

Authors

  • Rossana Pinheiro-Jones Universidade Federal de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12957/intellectus.2019.43927

Keywords:

Virginia Woolf, Literature, History, the writing of history, Medieval Ages

Abstract

This article aims to explore the importance Virginia Woolf assigned to History and its writing. Our assumptions are based on an inquiry about the sense of time in one of Woolf´s first short story, entitled The Journal of mistress Joan Martyn. In this short story conceived in 1906, a prestigious female historian comes across the manuscript of a journal written in 1480 by a young woman, a member of the Martyn family from Norfolk. When compared with some of Woolf´s later works, especially her autobiographical writings, this short story highlights the writer´s knowledge about some of the most important historiography debates of her times, amongst which the limitations and possibilities of the relationship between Literature and History.

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Author Biography

Rossana Pinheiro-Jones, Universidade Federal de São Paulo

Doutora em História e Professora da Universidade Federal de São Paulo

References

Fontes

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Published

2019-07-28

How to Cite

PINHEIRO-JONES, Rossana. Virginia Woolf and a sense of time. Intellèctus, Rio de Janeiro, v. 18, n. 1, p. 26–47, 2019. DOI: 10.12957/intellectus.2019.43927. Disponível em: https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/intellectus/article/view/43927. Acesso em: 12 may. 2025.

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Vol. 18 No. 1 (2019): História e literatura: diálogos possíveis - Jan/Jun

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