Virginia Woolf and the Aesthetics of Vision

The category of vision is significant for Modernist texts as well as for the unfolding discourse of Modernism itself. Within the general Modernist fascination with the artistic and experimental possibilities of vision and perception this study looks at Virginia Woolf’s novels and her critical writings and examines the relation between visuality and aesthetics.

An aesthetics of vision, as this study argues, becomes a productive principle of narrative. The visual is not only pertinent to Wool...