Kew Gardens | Characters
In accordance with her theories of fiction, Woolf's methods of characterization in "Kew Gardens" were a departure from almost everything that had been written in the British Isles since the emergence of the novel. In "The Common Reader" she had proclaimed "at this moment the form of fiction most in vogue more often misses than secures the thing we seek," and in her efforts to remedy the situation, she reconceived the entire concept of fictive character so that the garden became a kind of "character" at least of equal importance to the humans who wandered through it. Then, the people...
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