“A Curious Pattern Like a Tree:” Edenic Death and Life in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway
This paper charts Virginia Woolf’s use of arboreal imagery drawn from Dante and the Bible in Mrs Dalloway to argue that she employs and subverts traditional Christian symbolism to create a uniquely modern conception of interconnected immortal life. Guided by the images of the Edenic and infernal tre...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2022
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Christianity & literature
Year: 2022, Volume: 71, Issue: 1, Pages: 1-20 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941, Mrs. Dalloway
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IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBQ Eschatology |
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Mrs Dalloway
B Virginia Woolf B Eden B Ecology B Dante |
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