Virginia Woolf and the Migrations of Language

Virginia Woolf's rich and imaginative use of language was partly a result of her keen interest in foreign literatures and languages – mainly Greek and French, but also Russian, German and Italian. As a translator she naturally addressed herself both to contemporary standards of translation within the university, but also to readers like herself. In Three Guineas she ranged herself among German scholars who used Antigone to critique European politics of the 1930s. Orlando outwits the censors...