Victoria Glendinning, biographer of Leonard Woolf, offers her insights from extensive archival research into the life of Woolf in Ceylon and Britain. She explores Woolf's relationship to the metropolitan centre through his movement out to the c

'The Village in the Jungle' Roundtable Discussion

Jun 18th, 2013 45m 14s

This Roundtable Discussion offers several ways into the life and work of Leonard Woolf from the perspectives of several academics. Hermione Lee and Anna Snaith build on the intersections of Leonard's work with Virginia Woolf's novels, while Ell

Sri Lankan Traditions and the Imperial Imagination: Leonard Woolf's 'The Village in the Jungle'

Jun 18th, 2013 49m 14s

Novelist and academic, Chandani Lokuge, gives her keynote at the symposium. She brings Sri Lankan linguistic and cultural traditions to Woolf's The Village in the Jungle. She demonstrates the way in which the novel is heavily inflected with the

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