{"id":3506,"date":"2021-11-08T21:19:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T19:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2024-04-20T18:06:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T16:06:45","slug":"anne-besnault-woolf-and-historiography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/?p=3506","title":{"rendered":"Anne Besnault \u2014 Virginia Woolf&rsquo;s Unwritten Histories: Conversations with the Nineteenth Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Nous vous annon\u00e7ons la parution de l&rsquo;ouvrage d&rsquo;Anne Besnault, <em><span class=\"\"><i class=\"\">Virginia Woolf\u2019s Unwritten Histories:\u00a0<\/i><\/span><i class=\"\">Conversations with the Nineteenth Century<\/i>, <\/em>aux \u00e9ditions Routledge.<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Virginia Woolf\u2019s Unwritten Histories<\/em> explores the interrelatedness of Woolf\u2019s modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and to elaborate her poetics of the \u00ab\u00a0new\u00a0\u00bb: not as radical rupture but as the result of a process of unwriting and rewriting \u00ab\u00a0traditional\u00a0\u00bb historiographical orthodoxies. Its central argument is that unless we comprehend the genealogy of Woolf\u2019s historical thought and the complexity of its lineage, we cannot fully grasp the innovative thrust of her attempt to \u00ab\u00a0think back through our mothers.\u00a0\u00bb Bringing together canonical texts such as <i>Orlando<\/i> (1928), <i>A Room of One\u2019s Own<\/i> (1929), <i>Three Guineas<\/i> (1938) or <i>Between the Acts<\/i> (1941) and under-researched ones \u2014 among which stand Woolf\u2019s essays on historians and reviews of history books and her pieces on literary history and nineteenth-century women\u2019s literature \u2014 this book argues that Woolf\u2019s textual \u00ab\u00a0conversations\u00a0\u00bb with nineteenth-century writers, historians and critics, many of which remain unexplored, are interwoven with her historiographical poiesis and constitute the groundwork for her alternative histories and literary histories: \u00ab\u00a0unwritten,\u00a0\u00bb open-textured, unacademic and polemical counter-narratives that keep track of the past and engage politically with the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Plus d&rsquo;informations sur le site de l&rsquo;\u00e9diteur : <a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Virginia-Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories-Conversations-with-the-Nineteenth\/Besnault\/p\/book\/9780367354961\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u>https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/Virginia-Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories-Conversations-with-the-Nineteenth\/Besnault\/p\/book\/9780367354961<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-3507\" src=\"http:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories.jpg 785w, https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories-670x1024.jpg 670w, https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories-768x1174.jpg 768w, https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories-720x1101.jpg 720w, https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Woolfs-Unwritten-Histories-560x856.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00ab\u00a0Virginia Woolf\u2019s Unwritten Histories\u00a0\u00bb explores the interrelatedness of Woolf\u2019s modernism, feminism and her understanding of history as a site of knowledge and a writing practice that enabled her to negotiate her heritage, to find her place among the moderns as a female artist and intellectual, and to elaborate her poetics of the \u00ab\u00a0new\u00a0\u00bb: not as radical rupture but as the result of a process of unwriting and rewriting \u00ab\u00a0traditional\u00a0\u00bb historiographical orthodoxies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4112,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etudes-woolfiennes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}