[Vwoolf] Semi-Transparent Envelope and Gig Lamps

[Martin, Ann]

Hi Claire,
I was exploring the image of the gig-lamp in a session for the Ecologies II online symposium in the Fall. The gig is a one-horse carriage, so it can be read in contrast to the motor-cars that are invoked at the beginning of "Modern Fiction" (in her deliberate change of image, replacing bicycles at the beginning of "Modern Novels"). In this way, it could be associating the materialists with an outdated mode of transportation.

However, I see the more interesting (less teleological) reading of Woolf's use of the image is that the gig-lamp or carriage headlight—which would illuminate the road before it in a linear, focused fashion—stands in contrast to the halo and the more holistic, reciprocal, encompassing, interrelated experience that Woolf describes in relation to that image.

Looking forward to other takes on this!
Ann

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