Mrs Dalloway
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf’s novel Mrs Dalloway. First published in 1925, it charts a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a prosperous member of London society, as she prepares to throw a party. Writing in her diary during the writing of the book, Woolf explained what she had set out to do: ‘I want to give life and death, sanity and insanity. I want to criticize the social system, and to show it at work at its most intense.’ Celebrated for its innovative narrative technique and distillation of many of the preoccupations of 1920s Britain, Mrs Dalloway is now seen as a landmark of twentieth-century fiction, and one of the finest products of literary modernism.
Guests
- Professor Dame Hermione Lee
5 episodes
President of Wolfson College, Oxford -
Jane Goldman No other episodes
Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow -
Kathryn Simpson No other episodes
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Reading list
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Hermione Lee
Hermione Lee Google Books → -
Jane Goldman at the University of Glasgow
Jane Goldman at the University of Glasgow -
Kathryn Simpson at Cardiff Metropolitan University
Kathryn Simpson at Cardiff Metropolitan University -
The International Virginia Woolf Society
The International Virginia Woolf Society -
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain
The Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain -
About Virginia Woolf Selected Papers
About Virginia Woolf Selected Papers -
How Should One Read A Book?
How Should One Read A Book? -
A Room of One's Own
A Room of One's Own -
Mrs Dalloway - Wikipedia
Mrs Dalloway - Wikipedia -
Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language
Judith Allen (Edinburgh University Press, 2010) Google Books → -
Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings
Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer (eds.) (New York University Press, 1997) Google Books → -
Modernism: The New Critical Idiom
Peter Childs (Routledge, 2007) Google Books → -
The Hours
Michael Cunningham (Fourth Estate, 2003) Google Books → -
The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf
Jane Goldman (Cambridge University Press, 2006) Google Books → -
'With you in the Hebrides': Virginia Woolf and Scotland
Jane Goldman (Bloomsbury Heritage Monograph, Cecil Woolf, 2013) Google Books → -
Virginia Woolf
Hermione Lee (Vintage, 1997) Google Books → -
Virginia Woolf: Writers and Their Work
Laura Marcus (Northcote House, 2004) Google Books → -
New Casebooks: Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse
Su Reid (ed.) (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 1993) -
Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf (ed. David Bradshaw) (1st edition 1925, reprinted Oxford University Press 2008 ) Google Books → -
Selected Essays
Virginia Woolf (ed. David Bradshaw) (1st edition 1926, reprinted Oxford University Press 2008 ) Google Books → -
A Room of One's Own
Virginia Woolf (ed. Morag Shiach) (1st edition 1929, reprinted Oxford University Press 2008 ) Google Books → -
Mrs Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence
Virginia Woolf (ed. Stella McNichol) (Vintage, 2010) Google Books →
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