Book Group Discussion on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway (original) (raw)

Abstract

You are warmly invited to attend a Gender Studies Research Group book group discussion on Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway at the Newcastle City Library at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, March 2nd. In this discussion, PhD Candidate Stephanie Butler will lead us through a discussion of the ways Woolf's text responds to medical, political, and cultural attitudes towards shell-shock, trauma, and sexual orientations then considered deviant. Building on her past guest lecture at McMaster University and doctoral thesis research on Woolf's suicide from a Mad(ness) Studies perspective, Stephanie asks us to consider to what extent Woolf's grafting of her own symptoms and medical treatment onto a male war veteran anticipates later feminist advocacy for recognition of rape/sexual assault-induced Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome. Furthermore, given that the author had personal experience of mental illness and invasive treatment, and this experience informed her writing of a text in which the perspective of the shell-shocked soldier is privileged (in defiance of doctors), how can we think of Woolf's text in relation to Mad Pride History and contemporary autobiographical madness narratives?

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