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No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission.  \nNo portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS.  \nAny person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nFirst published 2010 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS.  \nPalgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, NewYork, NY 10010.  \nPalgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world.  \nPalgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN-13: 978–0–230–53758–3 hardback  \nThis book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.  \nA catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spiropoulou, Angeliki.  \nVirginia Woolf, modernity and history : constellations with Walter Benjamin / Angeliki Spiropoulou.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nSummary:“This new study analyses the representation of the past and the practice of historiography in the fiction and critical writings of Virginia Woolf, and draws parallels between Woolf’s historiographical imagination and the thought of Walter Benjamin, German philosopher of history and key theorist of modernity’’—Provided by publisher.  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN 978–0–230–53758–3 (hardback)  \n1. Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941—Criticism and interpretation. 2. Woolf, Virginia, 1882–1941—Knowledge—Historiography. 3. History in literature. 4. Benjamin,Walter, 1892–1940—Criticism and interpretation.  \n5. History—Philosophy. 6. Modernism (Aesthetics) I. 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