Graduation Year
2026
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Reader 1
Aaron Matz
Reader 2
Thomas Koenigs
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Abstract
This paper examines the evolving ways in which the ideological framework of Virginia Woolf's political essay Three Guineas manifests in her fiction, as well as how it is shaped by both world wars. In analyses of Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, The Years, and Between the Acts, I examine Woolf’s critiques of the masculine-patriotic-imperial value system that structures English society, its interdependence with the patriarchal tyranny of the domestic sphere, and how these critiques are complicated by a fraught relationship to Englishness that often balances sentimentality, personal attachment, and the fear of identity loss with the fiercely critical feminist-pacifist perspective articulated in Three Guineas.
Recommended Citation
Cole, Katherine S., ""As a woman I have no country": Patriarchy and Patriotism in Virginia Woolf's Interwar Fiction" (2026). Scripps Senior Theses. 2729.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/2729
