The Years (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
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- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Domestic realism
- Time of Work: 1880-1937
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Domestic realism, Family literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, Self-discovery, Parents and children, Twentieth century, Nature, Nineteenth century, Middle classes, London, Sick persons, Time, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: London, England
Places Discussed
*London. Every major shift in date within the novel is introduced by a panoramic descriptive sequence that contrasts the capital with the surrounding countryside or more distant vistas, but the lists of landmarks cited undergo an unsteady evolution. The novel’s opening, set in 1880, refers to shoppers in the city’s West End, clubs in Piccadilly, Marble Arch and Apsley House, coupled with a derisory reference to the poorer areas of Bermondsey and Hoxton. The 1891 sequence begins with the great churches of St. Paul’s and St. Martin’s and also encompasses...
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