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| author | Jonathan Brooks Sanford |
| title | Finding Her Room: The Life and Work of Virginia Woolf |
| abstract |
When one reads Virginia Woolf, one gets the distinct feeling that one is reading a map of her mind. Certainly, Woolf crafted her fiction to comment on the issues
important to her--feminism, homosexuality, and mental illness were all socially taboo topics that appeared in her prose. However, perhaps the most intriguing idea
Woolf had was that of a woman's "room," the place of her own where a woman can retreat to realize her full potential. In this thesis, I aim to define what exactly
a Woolf's "room" is as well as analyze three female characters--Clarissa Dalloway from Mrs. Dalloway and Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay from To the Lighthouse--in
order to explore how Woolf's idea of a woman's room translated into her fiction. |
| school | The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University |
| degree | M.Litt. (May 2014) |
| advisor | Cassandra Laity |
| full text | JBSanford.pdf |
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