The image of the UK empire occurs frequently in British literature, and it is also an important field which Virginia Woolf explored artistically in her novels.

大英帝国想象是英国文学中的一个“常数”，也是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫小说思想探索中一项极为重要的内容。

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