Modern Fiction
Woolf argues fiction must capture inner life; Luddy argues writing IS thinking, not a report on thinking.
Argues fiction must capture the 'luminous halo' of consciousness, not just external events; attacks Edwardian realism as materialist and dead
Published 1925 in The Common Reader (public domain). Woolf's manifesto for modernist fiction. The novel must go inward or die.
Key themes: Stream of consciousness, inner life, literary innovation, modernism, capturing experience