NDLI: Knocking on the Lighthouse Gate: Further Connections between Thomas de Quincey and Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse

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Author	Tildesley, Matthew Brinton
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	This work builds upon prior scholarship linking Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse with various works by Thomas de Quincey. De Quincey’s ‘On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth’ is here shown to offer a new and distinct critical approach to the interpretation of Woolf’s infamous novel, furthering connections between the two writers. Woolf’s letters, diaries and essays are used to show the depths to which de Quincey’s works may regarded as direct influences on her creative output during 1926 and 1927, and close literary analysis of the central texts reveals the extent to which that influence shaped many, central aspects of To the Lighthouse. The theme of a visionary-artistic perception which stands in opposition to empirical observation within in the novel is shown to be directly attributable to de Quincey, along with detailed, specific scenes, and Woolf’s delineation of all the major characters. The positing of de Quincey as the genesis of many of Woolf’s creative ideas also challenges some previously held interpretations of this, most seminal work of modernist fiction.
Starting Page	517
Ending Page	525
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00282677
Journal	Neophilologus
Volume Number	98
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15728668
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2013-07-04
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Thomas de Quincey Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse Romanticism Modernism Involutes Historical Linguistics Comparative Linguistics Philology Comparative Literature Syntax
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Linguistics and Language Literature and Literary Theory

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