Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium podcast

'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion

18.6.2013

Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium

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This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics. Hermione Lee and Anna Snaith build on the intersections of Leonard's work with Virginia Woolf's novels, while Elleke Boehmer and Nisha Manocha trace the Conradian elements of his writing. David Trotter explains why he understands Woolf's novel to be a 'primitivist' text, while Susheila Nasta brings Woolf's interactions with E.M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand and others to the fore.

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'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion
18.6.2013
45:14
This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics. Hermione Lee and Anna Snaith build on the intersections of Leonard's work with Virginia Woolf's novels, while Elleke Boehmer and Nisha Manocha trace the Conradian elements of his writing. David Trotter explains why he understands Woolf's novel to be a 'primitivist' text, while Susheila Nasta brings Woolf's interactions with E.M. Forster, Mulk Raj Anand and others to the fore.
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Sri Lankan Traditions and the Imperial Imagination: Leonard Woolf's 'The Village in the Jungle'
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'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion

Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium

Weitere Episoden von „Leonard Woolf's The Village in the Jungle (1913): A Day Symposium“

'The Village in the Jungle' as colonial memoir: Woolf writing home

'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion

Sri Lankan Traditions and the Imperial Imagination: Leonard Woolf's 'The Village in the Jungle'