Valentine Lacoste

“Writing Down” Fish: Culinary Aesthetics and Politics in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Between the Acts

This article traces fish as a culinary motif across Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Between the Acts (1941). It argues that fish – an overlooked foodstuff in Woolf’s writing – functions interdiscursively, articulating sensory experience and socio-political meaning while operating as both aesthetic matte...