Visions of Unity / Visions of Unification : Past, Present and Future Aspects Thereof as Expressed in the Works of Virginia Woolf and Dimitrije Mitrinović between the Two World Wars
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | I began my doctoral research in 2013 by focusing on a selection of the 1920s and 1930s fiction and non-fiction writings of Virginia Woolf and Dimitrije Mitrinović. This refers to those writings in which the two authors, the first renowned, the second almost forgotten, expressed particular visions for the preservation of peace based on the feeling of unity or the future unification of humanity at the time when, especially in the mid and late 1930s, most of Europe and large portions of the world were concerned with armament and the possibility of a new great war. Woolf’s essays Three Guineas and Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, her last novel Between the Acts and Mitrinović's “World Affairs” column published in The New Age (1920s) and New Britain (1930s) thus served as my starting points. However, already then I knew the list of authors and works I would have to include in my analysis would grow, and so, with the full support of my supervisor, I extended my current research to four more immensely important British intellectuals who, to a greater or lesser extent, explored the same themes in their 1930s works, namely: Aldous Huxley, H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell and E. M. Forster. The research currently brings together these six important pacifist writers of the interwar period in Britain who all, having survived the First World War, fought hard to prevent the next one. I analyse these works in relation to their wider context, drawing on the existing research on the authors’ biography/autobiography and the studies of politics, gender, history and literary tradition. |
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