Mourning and Precariousness in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
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Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, war, mourning, precariousnessAbstract
This article reflects on the interlude of Virginia Woolf’s novel To the Lighthouse, which marks a ten-year period during which the Ramsays’ summer home is empty while Europe experiences the First World War. It considers the contrast between the war and the invasion of the house by storms, as well as how human and nonhuman lives are portrayed throughout this decade. In conversation with Judith Butler, Sigmund Freud, and Ann Banfield, among others, the work also explores the notions of mourning and precariousness in the third and final part of Woolf’s novel.
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