![]() This was also a period of rapid intellectual achievement, and Woolf's emphasis on consciousness and a character's inner lives is consistent with the scientific and psychological ideas posited at the time. Eliot's The Waste Land, William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, and James Joyce's Ulysses. The modernist period gave rise to many groundbreaking and enduring masterworks, such as T.S. The novel was written and published during one of the most dense and impressive periods of development in English literary history. At its heart, however, the novel is a meditation on time and how humans reckon with its relentless passage. On the surface, the novel tells the story of the Ramsay family and the guests who come to stay with them at their vacation home on the Hebrides Islands in Scotland. ![]() ![]() The novel develops innovative literary techniques to reveal women's experience and to provide an alternative to male-dominated views of reality. With this ambitious novel, Woolf established herself as one of the leading writers of modernism. To the Lighthouse (1927) is widely considered one of the most important works of the twentieth century. ![]()
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