Mrs Dalloway
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway, published in 1925.
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.
With:
Professor Dame Hermione Lee
President of Wolfson College, Oxford
Jane Goldman
Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow
Kathryn Simpson
Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff Metropolitan University.
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LINKS AND FURTHER READING
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READING LIST:
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Judith Allen, Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Language (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
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Eileen Barrett and Patricia Cramer (eds.) Virginia Woolf: Lesbian Readings (New York University Press, 1997)
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Peter Childs, Modernism: The New Critical Idiom (Routledge, 2007)
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Michael Cunningham, The Hours (Fourth Estate, 2003)
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Jane Goldman, The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
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Jane Goldman, ‘With you in the Hebrides’: Virginia Woolf and Scotland (Bloomsbury Heritage Monograph, Cecil Woolf, 2013)
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Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf (Vintage, 1997)
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Laura Marcus, Virginia Woolf: Writers and Their Work (Northcote House, 2004)
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Su Reid (ed.), New Casebooks: Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 1993)
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Virginia Woolf (ed. David Bradshaw), Mrs Dalloway (1st edition 1925, reprinted Oxford University Press 2008)
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Virginia Woolf (ed. David Bradshaw), Selected Essays (1st edition 1926, reprinted Oxford University Press 2008)
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Virginia Woolf (ed. Morag Shiach), A Room of One’s Own (1st edition 1929, reprinted Oxford University Press 2008)
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Virginia Woolf (ed. Stella McNichol), Mrs Dalloway’s Party: A Short Story Sequence (Vintage, 2010)
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Melvyn Bragg |
| Interviewed Guest | Hermione Lee |
| Interviewed Guest | Jane Goldman |
| Interviewed Guest | Kathryn Simpson |
| Producer | Thomas Morris |
Broadcasts
- Thu 3 Jul 2014 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
- Thu 3 Jul 2014 21:30Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4
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