Hellenism and Loss in the Work of Virginia Woolf

Taking up Virginia Woolf''s fascination with Greek literature and culture, this book explores her engagement with the nineteenth-century phenomenon of British Hellenism and her transformation of that multifaceted socio-cultural and political reality into a particular textual aesthetic, which Theodore Koulouris defines as ''Greekness.'' Woolf was a lifelong student of Greek, but from 1907 to1909 sh...