Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity

Author:   Catriona Livingstone
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9781316514078


Pages:   274
Publication Date:   17 February 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Virginia Woolf, Science, Radio, and Identity


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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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Author:   Catriona Livingstone
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781316514078


ISBN 10:   1316514072
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   17 February 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. Schrödinger'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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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.

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