Modernism, Memory, and Desire

T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf were almost exact contemporaries, readers and critics of each others'' work, and friends for over twenty years. Their writings, though, are rarely paired. Modernism, Memory, and Desire proposes that some striking correspondences exist in Eliot and Woolf''s poetic, fictional, critical, and autobiographical texts, particularly in their recurring turn to the language of...