‘My Body Passes Vagrant as a Shadow’

The Woolfian self is a being in rapid motion. As Virginia Woolf herself noted in 1927, ‘we are not fast anchored where we are; things are moving round us; we are moving ourselves.’ In her texts, scenes rushing past a train or car window induce a paralysing sense of disembodiment: as life rushes onwa...

Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies

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