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56. Mrs. Dalloway.
Clarissa had a theory in those days—they had heaps of theories, always
theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of
dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know
each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was
unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people. But she said, sitting
on the bus going up Shaftesbury Avenue, she felt herself everywhere; not
“here, here, here”; and she tapped the back of the seat; but everywhere. She
waved her hand, going up Shaftesbury Avenue. She was all that. So that to know
her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the
places.
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that traces the lives of several
characters over the course of a single day in June 1923. The novel jumps
between characters, tracing their inner monologues and their memories as they
go about London, reminisce about their younger days, and worry about where
their lives have brought them. Suzanne and Chris explore this web of
connections and parallel lives, and dwell on particular moments of intensity:
an overheard conversation at a party, an unexpected kiss, or even riding a
bus.
Content warning: the novel and the episode contains discussion of mental
illness and suicide.
Show Notes.
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway.
[Bookshop.]
Some annotated editions of Mrs. Dalloway have come out
recently.
Our episodes on To the Lighthouse and
Orlando.
The Hogarth Press.
We didn’t talk about the effect of the pandemic on the book, but here’s an
article about reading Mrs. Dalloway in the shadow of our own
pandemic.
Ned Blackhawk: Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early
American West.
Charles Wilkinson: Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian
Nations.
Bram Stoker: Dracula.
Chris talks about Dracula on another
podcast.
Dracula Daily.
Our episode on John Donne.
Next: James Joyce: Ulysses.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
(Thanks!)
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Clarissa had a theory in those days—they had heaps of theories, always
theories, as young people have. It was to explain the feeling they had of
dissatisfaction; not knowing people; not being known. For how could they know
each other? You met every day; then not for six months, or years. It was
unsatisfactory, they agreed, how little one knew people. But she said, sitting
on the bus going up Shaftesbury Avenue, she felt herself everywhere; not
“here, here, here”; and she tapped the back of the seat; but everywhere. She
waved her hand, going up Shaftesbury Avenue. She was all that. So that to know
her, or any one, one must seek out the people who completed them; even the
places.
Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway is a novel that traces the lives of several
characters over the course of a single day in June 1923. The novel jumps
between characters, tracing their inner monologues and their memories as they
go about London, reminisce about their younger days, and worry about where
their lives have brought them. Suzanne and Chris explore this web of
connections and parallel lives, and dwell on particular moments of intensity:
an overheard conversation at a party, an unexpected kiss, or even riding a
bus.
Content warning: the novel and the episode contains discussion of mental
illness and suicide.
Show Notes.
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway.
[Bookshop.]
Some annotated editions of Mrs. Dalloway have come out
recently.
Our episodes on To the Lighthouse and
Orlando.
The Hogarth Press.
We didn’t talk about the effect of the pandemic on the book, but here’s an
article about reading Mrs. Dalloway in the shadow of our own
pandemic.
Ned Blackhawk: Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early
American West.
Charles Wilkinson: Blood Struggle: The Rise of Modern Indian
Nations.
Bram Stoker: Dracula.
Chris talks about Dracula on another
podcast.
Dracula Daily.
Our episode on John Donne.
Next: James Joyce: Ulysses.
[Bookshop.]
Support The Spouter-Inn on Patreon.
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