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Virginia Woolf's "Wild England": George Borrow, autoethnography, and Between the Acts.(Virginia Woolf's novel Between the Acts and George Borrow's Lavengro)

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 20070622
Author:Southworth, Helen

George Borrow's domestically focused Lavengro (1851) influenced Virginia Woolf's last novel Between the Acts (1941) in its capacity as an autoethnographic, autocritical portrait of England. Faced in the late 1930s with a fascist nationalism that would challenge the logic of her fierce attachment to home and nation, Woolf found in the anglocentric work of the early Victorian British translator, amateur ethnographer, philologist, gypsiologist, eccentric, and travel-writer-cum-picaresque-novelist a template that made possible a reinvention of the idea of home and "the heart of ...

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