Graduation Year
2023
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Aaron Matz
Reader 2
Michelle Decker
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© 2023 Claire C DuMont
Abstract
Virginia Woolf was particularly interested throughout her career in writing about war, ranging from the perspective of a depressed World War I veteran and his wife in Mrs. Dalloway, a dinner party held during an air raid in 1917 in The Years, an argument for the connections between patriarchal society and war in Three Guineas, and a pageant of British history held before World War II in Between the Acts. Woolf specifically writes of war as it impacts spheres away from the battlefield, in a way that is inherently gendered to her experience as a woman and is evident of a new kind of war narrative that takes in multiple perspectives.
Recommended Citation
DuMont, Claire, "“DECORATE THE DUNGEON WITH FLOWERS AND AIR-CUSHIONS:” VIRGINIA WOOLF AND WAR" (2023). Scripps Senior Theses. 2072.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2072
