November 12, 2020

Episode 6: To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

1 hour 10 minutes

Let your imagination set sail in this discussion of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse in the final episode of our first season. It's a story about love, family, loss, and growing up. It's also a story about the fluidity of perspective, drawing readers into the perceptions and interior lives of its characters as they relate to one another and the world. Through a language at once impressionistic and precise, Woolf depicts currents of thought and feeling, while raising questions about patriarchy, tradition, and the woman as artist.

We could not be more delighted to introduce this week's expert guests. Dr. Urmila Seshagiri is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who has published on literary modernism and Woolf. Currently, she is preparing the first scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf's memoir A Sketch of the Past.

Professor Dame Hermione Lee was President of Wolfson College from 2008 to 2017 and is Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Oxford University. She is one of the most highly acclaimed literary biographers in the English-speaking world. In 1996, she published a landmark biography of Virginia Woolf, and her most recent biography, Tom Stoppard: A Life, came out last month.

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