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In her last—posthumously published—novel, Woolf’s initially utopian vision of London is torn to pieces, as is the style of the novel. It is set in the countryside and from this point of view London is a distant place characterised by gossip, business, male power and violence. The only person dreaming of London is the old aunt, Mrs. Lucy Swithin. The London she is dreaming of, however, is not the modern city but the prehistoric place before the arrival of man, as described in Outline of History, her favourite book.
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Larsson, L. (2017). The Map of London Exhausted—Between the Acts . In: Walking Virginia Woolf’s London. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55672-7_8
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