'Mrs Dalloway' in Love

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British
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Author: Mieke Schüller ISBN: 9783638423786
Publisher: GRIN Publishing Publication: October 5, 2005
Imprint: GRIN Publishing Language: English
Author: Mieke Schüller
ISBN: 9783638423786
Publisher: GRIN Publishing
Publication: October 5, 2005
Imprint: GRIN Publishing
Language: English

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Seminar für Englische Philologie: Forschungs- und Lehrbereich Anglistik), course: Modern Fiction: 'Ulysses' and 'Mrs Dalloway', 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Mrs Dalloway,published in 1925, is widely accepted as a major work of 20thcentury English literature, because it introduced new stylistic approaches to writing and set basic aesthetic standards for the further development of literary modernism, thereby establishing Virginia Woolf as its leading female representative. Besides, the novel offers a subtle insight into the atmosphere in postwar London society, which was characterized by a feeling of overall destabilization and increasing isolation. Due to various causes, Great Britain's political, economic, and social spheres had undergone fundamental changes during the previous decades: the rapidly increasing industrialization had completely transformed the working sphere, caused high unemployment rates and further fragmented class divisions, which culminated waves of political and social unrest; revolutionary findings in the natural and medical sciences put the traditional view of man into question and brought about a crisis of faith; beyond, the recent experience of the First World War and its aftermaths added considerably to an 'atmosphere of gloom and doom' in Great Britain. Altogether, the loss of belief into progress, the rise of scientific knowledge and the decay of traditional moral values resulted in a 'disenchanted' world view; the individual suffered from the growing atmosphere of coldness in society; he was 'more isolated than ever before because he [could not] come in under an umbrella of common social forms, and thus escape from his sense of isolation' (Marder 64). Victorian guiding lines offered no adequate solutions for the demands of modern society anymore, and Virginia Woolf 'was in accord with many of her contemporaries in rejecting Victorian values. The social code, she felt, had degenerated in most cases into mere formalism. She regarded Victorian morality as unrealistic and suspected those who professed it of hypocrisy' (Marder 47). Furthermore, her living at 'a time when the hard-won victories of the suffragettes and women war workers were slowly being translated into law and affecting social attitudes' (Dowling 105) made her particularly interested in the emancipation's cause, and in many of her essays and articles, Virginia Woolf questioned the traditional, socially constructed gender roles.

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Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,7, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Seminar für Englische Philologie: Forschungs- und Lehrbereich Anglistik), course: Modern Fiction: 'Ulysses' and 'Mrs Dalloway', 12 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Mrs Dalloway,published in 1925, is widely accepted as a major work of 20thcentury English literature, because it introduced new stylistic approaches to writing and set basic aesthetic standards for the further development of literary modernism, thereby establishing Virginia Woolf as its leading female representative. Besides, the novel offers a subtle insight into the atmosphere in postwar London society, which was characterized by a feeling of overall destabilization and increasing isolation. Due to various causes, Great Britain's political, economic, and social spheres had undergone fundamental changes during the previous decades: the rapidly increasing industrialization had completely transformed the working sphere, caused high unemployment rates and further fragmented class divisions, which culminated waves of political and social unrest; revolutionary findings in the natural and medical sciences put the traditional view of man into question and brought about a crisis of faith; beyond, the recent experience of the First World War and its aftermaths added considerably to an 'atmosphere of gloom and doom' in Great Britain. Altogether, the loss of belief into progress, the rise of scientific knowledge and the decay of traditional moral values resulted in a 'disenchanted' world view; the individual suffered from the growing atmosphere of coldness in society; he was 'more isolated than ever before because he [could not] come in under an umbrella of common social forms, and thus escape from his sense of isolation' (Marder 64). Victorian guiding lines offered no adequate solutions for the demands of modern society anymore, and Virginia Woolf 'was in accord with many of her contemporaries in rejecting Victorian values. The social code, she felt, had degenerated in most cases into mere formalism. She regarded Victorian morality as unrealistic and suspected those who professed it of hypocrisy' (Marder 47). Furthermore, her living at 'a time when the hard-won victories of the suffragettes and women war workers were slowly being translated into law and affecting social attitudes' (Dowling 105) made her particularly interested in the emancipation's cause, and in many of her essays and articles, Virginia Woolf questioned the traditional, socially constructed gender roles.

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