Transatlantic Literature and Culture after 9/11: The Wrong Side of Paradise ed. by Kristine A. Miller (review)

Abstract

He would be disinclined to burn them; he could not publish them. Well, he should make up a book from them, I think; and then burn the body. I daresay there is a little book in them; if the scraps and scratchings were straightened out a little” (D3: 67). In focusing on precisely this diaristic attribute of “scraps and scratchings” as part of Woolf ’s growth, as “writing of a special sort” which is “a kind of intermediate stage between the unconscious and the public world” (9–10), Lounsberry—of course surpassing by far Woolf ’s humble expectations of her diary entries being “straightened out a little”—vividly shows us how Woolf became the Woolf we know today.