A TTP about Virginia Woolf′s Mrs Dalloway.ppt

Virginia Woolf:Mrs. Dalloway “The love that dare not speak its name” (Oscar Wilde) 5-7 April 2005 Mrs. Dalloway: Checklist for Review Tube station muse -- undulating As the ancient song bubbled up opposite Regent’s Park Tube Station, still the earth seemed green and flowery: still though it issued from so rude a mouth, a mere hole in the earth, muddy too, matted with root fibers and tangled grasses, still the old bubbling burbling song, soking through the knotted roots of infinite ages, and skeletons and treasure, streamed away in rivulets. . .fertilizing, leaving a damp stain. Mrs. Dalloway Novel’s response to fraternity Frowns on its alliance with patriarchy, capitalism, and imperialism Novel’s response to psychiatrists Social police of society Review esp. treatment/diagnoses of Septimus Warren Smith Mrs. Dalloway Checklist for Review EROTICS OF CHASTITY - single women, married women who are for all intents & purposes acting as single, screen for lesbian imagination? Single women in Woolf’s novels represent aspects of the powerful privileging of purity in her imagination, as the deaths of Judith Shakespeare represents women’s loss of freedom in hetersexual relations, marriage or rape Mrs. Dalloway Checklist for Review Clarissa Honor seems to derive from her failure to be Richard’s sexual partner Lives the life of a nun in her attic room, her narrow white bed Blissful love for Sally makes Clarifssa a very attractive figure Lesbian who marries for safety and appearances Denial of desire, or acknowledgment of social complications appending lesbian expression, lesbian action Mrs. Dalloway Virginia Woolf is one of the twentieth century’s best known lesbians Her complex lesbian codes are probably best understood as resulting from her reactions to contemporary sexologists’ definitions of lesbians and gay men Sexologists (Havelock Ellis and Herbert Spencer, e.g.) deemed lesbians to be “sexual inverts” Woolf resisted what she referred to as the “perpetual narrowing a