Knitting Time: Embodied Duration in Woolf’s To the Lighthouse
ANQ A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles Notes and Reviews February 10, 2026 DOI: 10.1080/0895769x.2026.2622596 (opens in new tab)
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| Key points | Argues that the critical tradition has overemphasized consciousness as the privileged site of temporal experience in To the Lighthouse and proposes that the novel's objects, domestic spaces, and nonhuman durations offer an alternative account of time. |
Abstract
Criticism of To the Lighthouse has, for much of the last century, turned to consciousness as the privileged site of temporal experience. From early phenomenological readings to more recent narratol...