Woolf, History, Us

• Published in: Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf p. 13
• Main Author: Melba Cuddy-Keane
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Liverpool University Press 01.06.2013
• Subjects: Applied philosophy; Art genres and movements; Art history; Artists; Arts; Atomic physics; Atoms; bounce; bounce factor; Controlled vocabularies; Cultural history; Economic disciplines; Economics; Education; Employment; Formal education; historical criticism; Historical methodology; Historicism; Historiography; History; History instruction; Humanities instruction; Keywords; Labor economics; Language; Lexicology; Linguistics; Literary criticism; Literary studies; Literary Studies (Poetry and Poets); Literature; Microphysics; Modernist art; Music; Music theory; Musical modes; Musical pitch; Narrative history; Occupations; Pedagogy; Performing arts; Philosophy; Philosophy of history; Physical sciences; Physics; reading; Subject terms; surround; Terminology; ventriloquize; Writers
• ISBN: 0989082628; 9780989082624
• DOI: 10.5949/liverpool/9780989082624.003.0002

History was the focus of my very first presentation at a Woolf conference, at Bard College in 1994. The motivation for that paper was a chance remark by a very UnWoolfian administrator at my own university: “£500 a year? What would that mean now? $100,000? $500,000? Woolf was so out of touch with real life.” My response was captured in my title “Opening Historical Doors to theRoom.” To understand Woolf’s metaphor, and the material foundation that supported it, I argued, we needed to engage both monetary and psychological conversion: in addition to knowing what £500 would mean in 1990s