Virginia Woolf: Resisting the Sovereignty Trap
Looking principally at Michel Foucault’s ‘Governmentality’ (1978), my central claim is that it is possible to read in Virginia Woolf’s fiction the anticipation of a post-structuralist politics of difference which distances itself from outmoded political thinking. Woolf’s fiction runs counter to the dominant ‘grand-narrative’ of sovereignty which conceives of governance as a unified and centralised
