To the Lighthouse
Modernist family saga
To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf, considered a landmark of literary modernism.
The book follows the Ramsay family and their guests at a summer house in Scotland, structured around two visits separated by ten years and a planned trip to a nearby lighthouse.
It pioneered stream-of-consciousness technique, with plot subordinated to the characters' interior experiences of time, memory, and loss.
- Bloomsbury GroupEdwardian artistic-literary collective
- HebridesScottish island chain
- stream of consciousnessNarrative mimicking uninterrupted thought
- inner lifeOne's private mental world
- beaconGuiding light source
Virginia Woolf · waves · modernism · time · memory · painting · summer · window · boat · sea · island · family · domestic life · dinner party · passage · shore · Scottish island · grief
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- British ModernismVirginia Woolf, T.S. Eliot, Bloomsbury Group, Vorticism, D.H. Lawrence
- British novelsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
- modernismPicasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Braque, Kandinsky
- Modernist ClassicsThe Great Gatsby, Ulysses, Mrs Dalloway, The Waste Land, The Trial
- modernist literatureJoyce, Woolf, James Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway
To the LighthouseThe Da Vinci Code
The Bourne Identity · thriller · page-turner · airport novel · potboiler
To the Lighthousenaturalism
Worldview excluding the supernatural
social realism · Émile Zola · Middlemarch · documentary fiction · Bleak House
lighthouse, light, house, lights, lighted, lighting, lighter, lightest, lighten