Reflections on Victorian Literature in Virginia Woolf's Diaries

Abstract

This bachelor thesis inspects modernist writer Virginia Woolf's diary collection, focusing on comments concerning Victorian writers and their writing style. Using the analysis method, the diary entries are studied together with her published essays proclaiming the correct modernist literary writing approach. The paper attempts to confirm and contradict Woolf's opinions on the Realist writing problematics. The main focus is put on writing tradition like character and plot style and comments towards Victorian writers.