Abstract
Woolf's writing has been carefully considered in terms of several matters related to these, including her father's public agnosticism and the doctrine of materialism, mystical experience, and worldly re-enchantment, Bloomsbury's (disavowed) Evangelical heritage in the Clapham Sect, and her investment in the radical political possibilities of Enlightenment reason.4 Yet the claim that her work represents secularization, that it makes intelligible a multifarious process that quietly underlies so many other social and cultural phenomena of her era, offers different analytical challenges.\n In her rendering of Septimus's first experience of revelation, quoted above, Woolf denaturalizes another significant political dimension of the secular.