British Literature Survey
Path 2: Virginia Woolf Group

 

Student-Researched Reference Topics

Reading Foci

  • metaphors and motifs: waves, wind,
  • the relative value of emotions and the affections, compared with the intellect and learning
  • Woolf's different means of capturing the individual mind's movement
  • education and women
  • perspectives on urban vs. rural vs. oceanic spaces
  • the purposes of the visual arts, literature, and music
  • the subtle and overt limits which society places on women
  • differing opinions concerning the expanding British Empire
  • the manner in which characters indirectly address, or talk around, sex
  • the degree to which characters do or do not know themselves
  • marriage
  • the power (as well as the limitations) of written & spoken words
Week One: Jan 12-14 The Voyage Out (1915): chps 1-5
Week Two: Jan 15-21 The Voyage Out (1915): chps 6-11
Week Three: Jan 22-28 The Voyage Out (1915): chps 12-16

Week Four: Jan 29-Feb 4

 The Voyage Out (1915): chps 17-22

Week Five: Feb 5-11

 The Voyage Out (1915): chps 23-27
Week Six: Feb 12-18 Jacob's Room (1922): chps ___ (180 pgs total)
Week Seven: Feb 19-25 Jacob's Room (1922): chps ___
Week Eight: Feb 26-Mar 4 Jacob's Room (1922): chps ___
Week Nine: Mar 5-11 Mrs. Dalloway (1925): pp 1-56
Spring Break
Week Ten: Mar 19-25 Mrs. Dalloway (1925): pp 56-151
Week Eleven: Mar 26-Apr 1 Mrs. Dalloway (1925): pp 151-194
Week Twelve: Apr 2-8 The Hours or Mrs. Dalloway (films, on reserve in the undergrad library)
Week Thirteen: Apr 9-15 To the Lighthouse (1927): "The Window"
Week Fourteen: Apr 16-22 To the Lighthouse (1927): "Time Passes
Week Fifteen: Apr 23-29

To the Lighthouse (1927): "The Lighthouse"


Paul Marchbanks
marchban@email.unc.edu