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“Modern Fiction” by Virginia Woolf from McNeille, Andrew, Ed. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Volume 4: 1925 to 1928. London: The Hogarth Press, 1984.

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Modern Fiction is an essay by Virginia Woolf. The essay was written in 1919 but published in 1921 with a series of short stories called Monday or Tuesday. The essay is a criticism of writers and literature from the previous generation. It also acts as a guide for writers of modern fiction to write what they feel, not what society or publishers want them to write.

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  • Modern Fiction by Virginia Woolf from McNeille, Andrew, Ed. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Volume 4: 1925 to 1928. London: The Hogarth Press, 1984.

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    userSticky NoteComparison between the old and the new in terms of quality.

  • userSticky Notematerialists vs. modern(ists)

  • userSticky Notethe novel as a mirror to reality

    userSticky Notelife, spirit, experience

  • userSticky Notethe condition of the modern writer, the quality of the modern novel

  • userSticky Noteform, method

    userSticky Noteartistic faith

  • userSticky Notesubject matter