Books by Madelyn (Miami University) Detloff

In The Value of Virginia Woolf, Madelyn Detloff explores the writings of Virginia Woolf from her early texts to her inventive novels. Detloff examines the significance of her fiction and the function of time and allegory, natural and urban spaces, voice and language that give Woolf's writings their perennial appeal.

This book examines the continued relevance of modernism in the early twenty first century, a time of escalating loss, retribution and desire. Some of the social formations that inspired modernism are still with us, and Detloff argues that the resilient writing of modernist figures offers us insight into our own contemporary traumas.