Dr%20Michael%20H.%20Whitworth: List of publications
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Traces of war in Virginia Woolf's Night and Day
July 2021
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Journal article
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Modernist Cultures
Katherine Mansfield's review of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day (1919) has dominated criticism of the novel and contributed to its critical neglect, but Mansfield's belief that the novel ignores the First World War has never been challenged. The present essay identifies the novel's oblique references to the war and to combat. It considers the novel's status as a historical novel: its awareness that the pre-war era is irretrievably lost, and its creation of situational ironies for its characters. It considers the themes of isolation, insulation, and near-obliviousness, and the awareness of sounds at the edge of consciousness, as symptomatic of the novel's war-time moment.
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Jamieson, Jargons, Jangles, and Jokes: Hugh MacDiarmid and Dictionaries
November 2019
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Chapter
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Poetry & the Dictionary
Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf
January 2018
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Scholarly edition
Edited and Annotated by Michael Whitworth
Orlando: A Biography
December 2014
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Book
Orlando tells the tale of an extraordinary individual who lives through centuries of English history, first as a man, then as a woman; of his/her encounters with queens, kings, novelists, playwrights, and poets, and of his/her struggle to find fame and immortality not through actions, but through the written word. At its heart are the life and works of Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West, and Knole, the historic home of the Sackvilles. But as well as being a love letter to Vita, Orlando mocks the conventions of biography and history, teases the pretensions of contemporary men of letters, and wryly examines sexual double standards.
This new edition discusses Woolf's stylistic aims, the biographical parallels, and the work's literary context, and includes the original illustrations.
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Fiction
Virginia Woolf (Authors in Context)
April 2009
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Book
What Woolf would like to see is a union of highbrows and lowbrows, joined in '
blood brotherhood' against the 'bloodless' middlebrow. ... a distant goal' to be '
crowned at last, if at all,' by 'enduring fame'.28 Smith recognized that 'fame' was
not a very adequate term, as it ... His suggestion that the English writer look to the
French ideal of 'la gloire' directly informs Woolf's Nick Greene.29 By putting
Smith's ...
Biography & Autobiography
Culture and Leisure in Hugh MacDiarmid’s ’On a Raised Beach’
January 2008
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Journal article
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Scottish Studies Review
Einstein's Wake Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature
December 2001
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Book
The revolution in literary form and aesthetic consciousness called modernism arose as the physical sciences were revising their most fundamental concepts: space, time, matter, and the concept of 'science' itself.