[Vwoolf] the superfluous imagination

[Harish Trivedi]

Thanks. I'll get hold of a copy, though it doesn't sound like what I was
looking for, i.e., India in Woolf.

Harish Trivedi



On 1 March 2018 at 16:02, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>
wrote:

> I haven’t seen this myself:
>
> [BERMAN, Jessica (ed. + intro.)] Supriya Chaudhuri, "Reading Woolf in
> India" in "A Companion to Virginia Woolf", Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley
> Blackwell, 2016, pp.453-
> "The volume contains 33 essays by top scholars"  ISBN: 978-1-118-45788-7.
> 520 pp.
> http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118457889.html
>
> Stuart
>
> *From:* Harish Trivedi
> *Sent:* Thursday, March 1, 2018 9:16 AM
> *To:* Stuart N. Clarke
> *Cc:* Virginia Woolf
> *Subject:* Re: the superfluous imagination
>
> Thanks, Stuart!
>
> My supervisor would have been delighted to have confirmation from VW
> herself that the British never came back from Rangoon!  Unlike Kipling's
> sailor who yearns to go back to Mandalay, if not quite to Rangoon. And
> those aunts belong to Forster, presumably.
>
> Is there an article or chapter to be found generally on VW and India?
>
> All best.
>
> Harish Trivedi
>
>
>
> On 1 March 2018 at 14:26, Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com
> > wrote:
>
>> No doubt we should be, on the whole, much worse off than we are without
>> our astonishing gift for illusion. At the age of twelve or so, having given
>> up dolls and broken our steam engines, France, but much more probably
>> Italy, and India almost for a certainty, draws the superfluous imagination.
>> One’s aunts have been to Rome; and every one has an uncle who was last
>> heard of—poor man—in Rangoon. He will never come back any more. But it is
>> the governesses who start the Greek myth.
>> (JR, ch. XII, p. 223 1st Hogarth)
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>>
>> *From:* Harish Trivedi via Vwoolf
>> *Sent:* Thursday, March 1, 2018 6:14 AM
>> *To:* Anne Fernald
>> *Cc:* Virginia Woolf
>> *Subject:* Re: [Vwoolf] did Woolf read the Gita?
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Finally, could anyone please help me find the chapter and verse for an
>> obiter dictum by VW that I have cherished for long which goes something
>> like: "Both India and Italy exercise the superfluous imagination."  My
>> supervisor Frank Bradbrook used to say that VW sent her characters off to
>> India to get them out of the way for a while or to die.  And of course
>> there aren't too many of those either.
>>
>> All best.
>>
>>
>> Harish Trivedi
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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