Perpetual Departure: Sacred Space and Urban Pilgrimage in Woolf's Essays

Sarah Elizabeth Anderson

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-32568-8_7

Perpetual Departure: Sacred Space and Urban Pilgrimage in Woolf's Essays

Sarah Elizabeth Anderson

English

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This chapter explores how pilgrimage as sacred journeying contributes to the formation and perception of sacred space in two of Woolf’s urban essays: ‘The London Scene: IV Abbeys and Cathedrals’ (1932) and ‘Street Haunting’ (1927). Woolf’s writing on sacred buildings and other places blurs boundaries between inside and outside, life and death, stasis and movement. In Woolf’s work pilgrimage is brought into everyday life. Pilgrimage becomes a mode of simultaneously inscribing the ordinary and the extraordinary in material encounters that invite connection while preserving difference. Woolf’s writing shows a mode of sacred journey that is joyful in its affirmation of the sacred as situated within the everyday, rather than an otherworldly beyond.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Religion, Secularism and the Spirtual Paths of Virginia Woolf
Editors	Kristina K. Groover
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	109-130
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	978-3-030-32567-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-32568-8_7
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019

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Woolf, pilgrimage, de Certeau, sacred space, Street Haunting, Abbeys and Cathedrals

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Sarah Anderson
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