Journal Article

\something so varied and wandering\: \restless\ subjectivity in Virginia Woolf's fiction

Leps, Marie-Christine, Higgins, Lesley

2019

نظرة عامة

In the new urban environments forged by and through imperialism, mass migrations, women's and workers' struggles, and war, social peace requires a new consolidation and administration of identities-people need to know their place. [...]the \"new\" women of late Victorian, Edwardian, and Georgian London could circulate unescorted, discover new areas of the city and themselves, and experience incongruous adjacencies-within the limits of propriety and security. How they came to find themselves walking down a street with...a steady succession of motor-omnibuses plying both ways along it, they could neither of them tell; nor account for the impulse which led them suddenly to select one of these wayfarers and mount to the very front seat...They were borne on until they saw the spires of the city.. ..They had followed some such course in their thoughts too; they had been borne on, victors in the forefront of some triumphal car...masters of life. Put another way, why are possibilities of transformation post-World War I no less limited than they were pre-war; why are radical ambitions experienced as being ultimately illusory by both characters and readers alike, who know that rebellious youths and \"pioneers\" usually find themselves \"borne on\" (MD 103) retracing predictable paths of identity formation?

• الناشر: Southern Connecticut State University
• موضوع: British & Irish literature / Buses / English literature / Essays / Fiction / Irish literature / Joyce, James (1882-1941) / Soundscapes / Subjectivity / War / Woolf, Virginia (1882-1941) / Working class