Clare Pettitt is Professor of 19th-Century Literature and Culture at King’s College London. She is currently finishing two books; one called “Distant Contemporaries: Revolution, Time Lag and Form 1815-1848” and “The Digital Switch: Literature and Compression 1850-1920.” She is a Director of ‘Scrambled Messages: The Telegraphic Imaginary 1857–1900’, an interdisciplinary project about the laying of the Atlantic Cable: http://www.scrambledmessages.ac.uk/
Clare Pettitt
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Ordinary People
One fantasy of modernism is telling all there is to tell about the most ordinary of lives. On a train journey from Richmond to Waterloo Station, Virginia Woolf watched “an old lady in the corner opposite” in her carriage. She was “one of those clean, threadbare old ladies,” whom Woolf imagined might well be called […]
Ordinary People
One fantasy of modernism is telling all there is to tell about the most ordinary of lives. On a train journey from Richmond to Waterloo Station, Virginia Woolf watched “an old lady in the corner opposite” in her carriage. She was “one of those clean, threadbare old ladies,” whom Woolf imagined might well be called […]
