Dalloway - Context Flashcards
When was James Joyce’s the Ulysses written?
1922
When the Bloomsbury group founded?
1912
Name some of the prominent members of the Bloomsbury group.
Virginia Woolf Leonard Woolf Clive Bell Vanessa Bell E.M Forster Bertrand Russel
What types of things did the Bloomsbury group discuss?
- Political issues of the time (many of them were socialists)
- The war (many of them were pacifists)
- Art (many of them were artists or writers)
- Philosophy (many of them were philosophers)
- the redundancies of victorian ideals (“bourgeois habits”) e.g. Monogamy, conservatism, heterosexuality
What was the name of the printing press the Woolfs set up?
Hogarth Press
Why was the Bloomsbury group criticised?
Accused of being snobbish and elitist
Who was the first labour prime minister? And what year was he put in office?
Ramsay MacDonald
1924
Who else was using the stream of consciousness technique at the time?
Gertrude Stein, James Joyce
How did cubism influence Woolf?
A Cubist painting attempted to render the object simultaneously from several view points in several moments in time. Woolf’s fractured, multiple perspectives styles reflects this desire to capture something not simply by describing it as it is but also as it was, as it will be how someone is viewed and how they view themselves.
Which narrative techniques demonstrate woolfs interest in Cinema?
Montage, close ups, flashbacks,tracking shots, rapid cuts
When was ‘mrs dalloway’ written?
1925
What does James Joyce’s the Ulysses have in common with Mrs Dalloway?
- Happens during the course of one day
- Written in stream of consciousness
- Woolf was reading it when she started writing Mrs Dalloway
Elaine showalter called Clarissa and Septimus ‘doubles’, name at least 5 ways in which Clarissa and Septimus are connected/similar.
a) Respond to things very physically
b) Bird like
c) Water, waves
d) Both slightly mad
e) fear no more the heat of the sun, nor the furious winters rages
f) hate bradshaw
g) death of sept frees clarissa
In what ways is Freud’s work relevant to Mrs Dalloway?
- Impact of childhood on adult development (sexual development in particular)
- Memories
- dreams
- Mind=complex
- id, ego, superego
Skywriting was very popular at the beginning of the 20th century. When was skywriting invented and by who?
1922
Major Jack
When was the cinema invented?
1890s
What does bathos mean?
contrasting an elevated manner or description with something ordinary or banal.
What does ‘eponymous’ mean?
named after a particular person
On which day is Mrs Dalloway set?
13th june 1923
When was Mrs Dalloway written?
1925
When did Woolf write ‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’? What was the essay about?
1924
Challenged the unimportant information like how much someone earnt or their relations. Arnold Bennett was the author that Woolf was directly criticising. Him, alongside other edwardian authors, often wrote in the style she mocks. In particular she criticised these authors presentation of women.
What Shakespeare play is significantly quoted by both Clarissa and Septimus?
Cymbeline
What is Sally called at the end of the novel? How many sons does she have?
Lady Rosseter, 5
In what ways did attitudes to female sexuality change after the war?
Before the war female sexuality was greatly limited and restricted with women often seen as not enjoying sex.
After the war, the necessity of new mothers meant attitudes to female sexuality had to change. The focus became on sexual compatibility between Man and wife.
