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Welcome to the Modernism Lab Wiki, a home for brief interpretive essays on literary works, authors and movements of the modernist period designed to complement Modernism Lab's research platform, YNote.

                                               Featured Article: Virginia Woolf's The Years

                                                                 by Robert Higney

Published in 1937, The Years was the last of Virginia Woolf’s novels to appear in print during her lifetime. Over the previous six years, Woolf had undertaken a massive project combining fiction and social critique that eventually produced both The Years and the polemical essays of Three Guineas. (While not the single volume tour de force that Woolf first envisioned, she would later write that the two works really constituted “one book.”) The Years consists of two long sections entitled “1880” and “Present Day” (approx. 80 and 120 pages, respectively) that bookend nine shorter sections, each headed only by a year: 1891, 1907, 1908, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, and 1918. Sections open and are occasionally interrupted by passages of what could be termed panoramic narration that describes seasons, weather, celestial bodies, and the day to day movements of people and things before the its scope tightens to inhabit the consciousness of particular characters. Each section covers a single day with the exception of the first, which includes events on at least three days.

The Years defies plot summary and includes nothing that could be termed a continuous storyline or a central protagonist. Nor is there much of the charged, poetic language that works in many of Woolf’s novels to evoke memory and the processes of perception--indeed, among the novel’s distinguishing features is its curious flatness of affect or tone. Woolf presents a large cast of characters whose ordinary activities and thoughts we follow on seemingly random days over a span of fifty-odd years. (more...).

Articles by Year

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1895	1906	1917	1928
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1897	1908	1919	>1930
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Articles by Author

Joseph Conrad	Katherine Mansfield
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)	Sean O'Casey
T.S. Eliot	Ezra Pound
Ford Madox Ford	Marcel Proust
E.M. Forster	Dorothy Richardson
Robert Frost	George Bernard Shaw
Thomas Hardy	May Sinclair
Aldous Huxley	Lytton Strachey
Henry James	H.G. Wells
James Joyce	Rebecca West
Franz Kafka	Oscar Wilde
D.H. Lawrence	Virginia Woolf
Wyndham Lewis	William Butler Yeats

Contributors

Sam Alexander	Michaela Bronstein
Emily Cersonsky	Michael Chan
Samuel Cross	Anthony Domestico
Kirsty Dootson	Elyse Graham
Robert Higney	Lauren Holmes
Andrew Karas	Eike Kronshage
Pericles Lewis	Kenneth Ligda
James Ross Macdonald	Anne-Marie McManus
Emily Petermann	Jesse Schotter
Michael Shapiro	Carolyn Sinsky
Jack Skeffington	Aleksandar Stevic
Nathan Suhr-Sytsma	Jessica Svendsen

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