"He's the Test(imony)": Edward Gibbon and Virginia Woolf's View of History

• Published in: English studies Vol. 105; no. 7; pp. 1098 - 1122
• Main Authors: Zhang, Pengfei, Gao, Fen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lisse Routledge 01.11.2024; Swets & Zeitlinger bv
• Subjects: Edward Gibbon; history; The Voyage Out; Virginia Woolf; Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941); United States > US; Virginia

This article examines Virginia Woolf's view of history by taking Edward Gibbon as a locus of historical reflection and refiguration. Starting with a reinvestigation into the Gibbon episode in The Voyage Out, it argues that Woolf's primary aim is to equate history as an act of reading and t...