A Study on Multiple Spaces in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

Yiluo Zhao; Jingdong Zhong

doi:10.54097/fbem.v4i1.544

Authors

Yiluo Zhao
Jingdong Zhong

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54097/fbem.v4i1.544

Keywords:

Mrs. Dalloway, multiple spaces, transcendence, Virginia Woolf.

Abstract

Since the spatial turn of the 20th century, academics have been on a journey of exploring spaces with the everlasting interest. From Henri Lefebvre through Michel Foucault to Edward W. Soja, the spatial theory has been constantly discussed and its concern has been expanded from the physical space to the spiritual space. British writer Virginia Woolf is renowned for her avant-garde modernist writings in the adoption of the stream-of-consciousness approaches, while her works are also rich in spatial connotations and ideas, which are highly consistent with the spatial theory. Based on the spatial theories of Lefebvre, Foucault Soja and so on. This paper does a close reading in Woolf’s representative work, Mrs. Dalloway to interpret multiple spaces, concerning those in general (gender, class, nation, etc.) and those of transcendence (attic, rural, party, etc.). Looking back at the spatial narratives of Woolf’s novels allows us to understand more deeply how this literary spatial practice have affected the way we perceive the world and our own existence.

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