Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: An Introduction (1/2)

English 1120 -- Time and History in Literature
Lecture 11
Professor Timothy H. Wilson
Department of English, University of Ottawa (Winter 2021)
Lecture 11 discusses the context of Woolf's great novel, Mrs. Dalloway, in relation to the intellectual revolutions of the 19th century (Darwin, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud) and the historical context of the First World War. Modernist aesthetics is discussed with particular focus on their temporal experimentations -- such as Cubism in the visual arts and "stream of consciousness" in fiction.
0:00 - Introduction
2:34 - Outline
5:30 - Recapitulation
6:55 - The Three Waves of Modernity
12:30 - Modernism
13:17 - Virginia Woolf (and Stream of Consciousness)
15:45 - Charles Darwin
19:07 - Karl Marx
25:53 - Friedrich Nietzsche
29:42 - Sigmund Freud
35:45 - The Great War (World War I)
40:45 - The Aesthetics of Modernism
41:21 - Avant Garde Movements: Imagism (example, William Carlos Williams, The Red Wheelbarrow)
44:37 - Cubism: Temporal Flow
49:00 - Modernist Alienation and Fragmentation
50:34 - T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
51:46 - James Joyce, Ulysses and Stream of Consciousness
54:30 - The Phenomenology of Time: Husserl, Heidegger
1:01:00 - Narration in Mrs. Dalloway
1:01:54 - Stream of Consciousness (Modern Fiction quote)
1:06:09 - Free Indirect Discourse
1:10:08 - Deep Connections
1:10:52 - Quote from Mrs. Dalloway -- the opening paragraphs
1:19:50 - Conclusion
- Course Web site -- Time and History: sites.google.com/site/unterge...
- Professor Wilson's Web site -- The Western Canon: sites.google.com/site/unterge...
- The powerpoint slides for this lecture can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/1n3R4...