Ep. 19. Streaming Consciousness
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Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, and A Room of One’s Own. The beauty of stream-of-consciousness narration. Woolf’s changing place in the canon. Woolf, gender, and class. Clarissa Dalloway’s bohemian background and elitism. A conversation with Sam’s mother about discovering Woolf in the 20th century; Woolf’s relationship to feminism, sexuality, and women’s experience; and what Woolf’s pronouns would be if she were alive today. Mrs. Dalloway as city novel and postwar novel. Septimus Warren Smith’s suicide, Woolf’s suicide, Woolf’s challenge to psychology, and the 20th-century cult of the mentally ill artist. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit grandhotelabyss.substack.com
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