" Is it just me or could Virginia Woolf be"(CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) by olvado INTRODUCTION VIRGINIA WOOLF belongs to Modern Age, which starts from 1901 to 1960. This age is also called Age of Anxiety. Due to wars, deaths, sufferings, mental tensions the author's literary works has also got affected. Virginia is not only the example for these sufferings. There is a long list of authors (Indian authors too) who faced the same problems of that Era. In this post we' ll put a brief glance on authors, whether they are foreign English or Indians who have almost same style of writing focussing the themes of Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Androgyny, Depression, Autobiographical content, Time &Timelessness, Interior Monologue, Symbolism, Imagiasm, Theory of Thanatos, War Fare etc. MAJOR NOVELISTS OF MODERN AGE A. Foreign novelists : 1. D.H. Lawrence 2. James Joyce 3. Dorothy Richardson 4. Somerset Maugham 5. H. W. WELLS 6. Joseph Conr...
This blog will help the readers to understand Woolf's critical style of writing and her works.