Proposals for papers should be no more than 250 words and should specify if you wish to participate in a panel or as part of the roundtable. Please note that there will be only three slots available for the roundtable, so proposers are encouraged to also submit a proposal for a traditional panel paper.
Follow the guidelines below and at this link. Then submit your proposal via email and complete the following form by midnight Aug. 30.
If you have further questions, send them via email to mrsdallowaysymposium@st-andrews.ac.uk
Today, May 14, marks the centenary of Virginia Woolf’s celebrated 1925 novel Mrs. Dalloway, with 1,500 copies sold within a month of its publication.
A reader favorite
Woolf’s fourth novel, set on a single day in the middle of June in 1923, elicited a variety of responses after its publication.
As Mark Hussey explains in Virginia Woolf A to Z (1995), the novel has not only held the attention of critics over the years, but “with To the Lighthouse, has probably generated more commentary than any other of Wolf’s fictions” (175).
The novel, lauded for its use of interior monologue, as well as its poetic language, is a reader favorite. It is certainly one I have picked up and read at various stages of my life during the last 50 years, always finding some new insight into Clarissa, along with some new connections between Clarissa’s thoughts and life and my own.
Links to follow in celebration of the centenary
Here are some links to articles and events noting this milestone, thanks to Vara Neverow, professor of English at Connecticut State University and editor of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany.
