Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity

Catriona Livingstone

doi:10.1017/9781009082501

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.

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Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity
pp i-ii

Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Image
pp vi-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Abbreviations
pp ix-x

Introduction
pp 1-38

Chapter 1 - Schrödinger’s Woolf
pp 39-78

Chapter 2 - ‘Unity–Dispersity’
pp 79-116

Chapter 3 - ‘Our Senses Have Widened’
pp 117-150

Chapter 4 - Tigers under Our Hats
pp 151-195

Conclusion
pp 196-204

Bibliography
pp 205-217

Index
pp 218-226

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