Instructor: Cheryl Mares
Office Hours: W3-4; Th2:45-3:45
(and by appointment)

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DEADLINES:
Proposals due-Oct. 26
Projects due-Dec. 7
Presentations-Exam Week

CALENDAR


August 24 (Thursday), 29, 31
September 5

Moments of Being

Recording of Woolf reading excerpt from "Craftsmanship"

"Bloomsbury and Modernism" (from the Longman Anthology)

Sidonie Smith, "Identity's Body"
(from Autobiography and Postmodernism, ed. K. Ashley et al.)

Diane Cousineau, "Virginia Woolf's 'A Sketch of the Past': Life-Writing, The Body, and the Mirror Gaze"

September 7 (Thursday), 12

A Moment's Liberty: The Shorter Diary
(Click here for the list of selected entries.)


Susan Sellers, "Virginia Woolf's Diaries and Letters"
(from the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf)

Judy Simons, "The Safety Curtain: The Diary of Virginia Woolf"
(from Diaries and Journals of Literary Women...)



September 14, 19

The Letters
(Click here for the list of selected letters.)

Catherine Stimpson, "The Female Sociograph:
The Theater of Woolf's Letters"

September 21(Thursday)

"How Should One Read a Book?"
"Modern Fiction" (excerpt)
"Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown"
(excerpt)

Hermione Lee, "Virginia Woolf's Essays"
(from the Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf)

September 26 Mrs. Dalloway


(Cover by Vanessa Bell)

Beth Rigel Daugherty, "The Whole Contention
Between Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Woolf, Revisited"
(from Virginia Woolf: Centennial Essays)


(Sept. 28, 29 - Reading Days)
October 3, 5 - Mrs. Dalloway
(cont.)

October 10

Elizabeth Abel, "Narrative and Female Development in Mrs. Dalloway"

Hermione Lee, "Marriage" and "War" chapters in Virginia Woolf

Roger Poole, "Was Septimus Smith Insane?" from The Unknown Virginia Woolf

Marlene Briggs, "Veterans and Civilians; The Mediation of Traumatic Knowledge in Mrs. Dalloway" (from Virginia Woolf & Communities)

October 12, 17
A Room of One's Own


(Cover by Vanessa Bell)

(*Oct. 26 - Detailed Project Proposal Due)

Melba Cuddy Keane, Mrs. Dalloway: Film, Time, and Trauma"
(from Virginia Woolf and her Influences)

Screening of film version of Mrs. Dalloway

 

 

 

October 19, 24, *26

Orlando


Excerpts from "Censors" in Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf and from "Orlando" chapter in Avrom Fleishman's Virginia Woolf

Trip to Rare Book Room to view Woolf Collection (including rare copy of the true first edition of Orlando - a signed copy of the Crosby Gage edition)

October 31, November

Jaime Hovey, "'Kissing a Negress in the Dark'' Englishness as a Masquerade in Woolf's Orlando"

"'If I Saw You Would You Kiss Me?'": Sapphism and the Subversiveness of Virginia Woolf's Orlando
"

Selected Poems by Vita Sackville-West

 

November 7
Woolf and The Short Story

"The Mark on the Wall," "Kew Gardens," "The New Dress," "A Summing Up," "'Slater's Pins Have No Points'", "The Lady in the Looking-Glass," "The Legacy"

November 9, 14

Excerpts from
"Professions for Women,"
"The Leaning Tower,"
and
Three Guineas



(Cover by Vanessa Bell)

Excerpts on Three Guineas from Hermione Lee's Virginia Woolf

Entry on Three Guineas in Mark Hussey's Virginia Woolf: A-Z (recommended)


November 16

Between the Acts


(Cover by Vanessa Bell)

(Nov. 17-26 Thanksgiving Break)

November 28
Between the Acts

November 30
Between the Acts

JOURNALS DUE

December 5

Between the Acts

Plus: Gillian Beer, "Between the Acts: Resisting the End"


December 7

Hermione Lee, "Virginia Woolf and Offence";
"Responses to a Life of Virginia Woolf"
Special Projects Due. Schedule presentations.
Do course evaluations.

(Dec. 9 - Reading Day
Dec. 10-15 Exam Period)

 

 

 

 

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