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Overview Virginia Woolf - life and times As a modernist novelist As a critic and thinker As a feminist

Woolf Another Victorian Daughter of Leslie Stephen Educated at home Bloomsbury group

Mental illness First breakdown following death of mother, 1895 Second following death of father, 1904 Attempted suicide Institutionalised Is this relevant?

Woolf’s development Literary meetings with Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell, Lytton Strachey etc Bloomsbury Group begins to coalesce around 1906 Woolf writes for TLS and other journals –Dial, Athenaeum “…on or about December, 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that. But a change there was, nevertheless; and, since one must be arbitrary, let us date it about the year ”

1910 Dreadnought hoaxPost-Impressionists

Woolf’s Development as novelist 1915: The Voyage Out- first attempt at a modernist approach 1919 Night and Day - a backward step? 1922 Jacob’s Room 1925 *Mrs Dalloway 1927 *To the Lighthouse *Major modernist texts

Woolf as Critic Admitting the vagueness which afflicts all criticism of novels, let us hazard the opinion that for us at this moment the form of fiction most in vogue more often misses than secures the thing we seek. Whether we call it life or spirit, truth or reality, this, the essential thing, has moved off, or on, and refuses to be contained any longer in such ill-fitting vestments as we provide. Nevertheless, we go on perseveringly, conscientiously, constructing our two and thirty chapters after a design which more and more ceases to resemble the vision in our minds. (‘Modern Fiction’)

‘a myriad impressions’ Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions-trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday, the accent falls differently from of old…

‘life is a luminous halo’ Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end. Is it not the task of the novelist to convey this varying, this unknown and uncircumscribed spirit, whatever aberration or complexity it may display, with as little mixture of the alien and external as possible?

Mrs Dalloway Some key features: Takes place on one day (cp. Ulysses) Central figure of the title is Mrs D – but narrative does not centre solely on her. Focus on apparently trivial –preparation for a party – but takes in matters of broader importance (e.g. the aftermath of war, the empire, social class)

Mrs Dalloway and modernism Use of interior monologue very prevalent (though little true stream-of-consciousness) Lack of linearity – novel is based on succession of images; visual aspect very important Fragmentation – novel represents a world undergoing change; social and spiritual disintegration Competing narratives – interplay of Septimus’s fractured world and the ordered world of CD

More modernist features Lack of chronological time – but what about the role of Big Ben? Series of moments of vision – cp Joyce’s epiphanies Concentration on female consciousness Use of prolepsis and analepsis

Time as theme Time emphasised throughout – in CD’s thoughts, in the remembrance of the past, and by the external narrator noting the time of day; Cymbeline reference (p.8) Original title – The Hours – significant? Bergson’s theories of time

Cymbeline Fear no more the heat o' the sun, Nor the furious winter's rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Fear no more the frown o' the great; Thou art past the tyrant's stroke; Care no more to clothe and eat; To thee the reed is as the oak: The sceptre, learning, physic, must All follow this, and come to dust.

Woolf and Feminism A Room of One’s Own (1929) Suggests the possibility of distinctively female writing – possibly anticipates écriture féminine of Cixous Three Guineas (1938) Examines role of patriarchy and critiques male domination of political landscape – significantly timed just before outbreak of Word War II.

Late Woolf Experimental fiction: The Waves (1931) The Years (1937) Suicide March 1941 Between the Acts posthumously published July 1941

Woolf… developed distinctive narrative style; stream of consciousness / interior monologue; produced important modernist critiques of the novel and art; engaged with political issues of the day; focused particularly on the female condition.