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Significant Brit. Writers: Virginia Woolf
Calendar for Class Discussion & Exams ("Path 1")

"No one stands still. It seems as if we marched to the sound of music; perhaps the wind and the river;
perhaps these same drums and trumpets--the ecstasy and hubbub of the soul" (90).
Jacob's Room (1922)



for pre-class "points of reflection," click on the color bar above each day's readings

if I use Woolf's Three Guineas, employ the new Broadview Encore Edition (Canada only??) which includes the original photographs: ISBN: 9781554811083

Date
Readings: Path I
Topics
 
Tues,
Day 1

INTRODUCTION
overview of course guidelines
  • course guidelines
  • mini-lecture: VW's family of origin
 
Thurs,
Day 2

ASDF
V. Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915), 1st part [see The Voyage Out questions edited & organized for Engl 512 path 2 "sexual awakenings" group--they're much better than those recorded in various Word files.
1976), pdfs (available at Blackboard)
  • format:
  • no reading response essays due
The Voyage Out
Tues,
Day 3

A Female Education
V. Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915), 2nd part
"An Unwritten Novel" in A Haunted House and Other Stories, 8-21
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Mon. at 6 p.m.: Alexovich thru Gibson
The Contours of Romance
Thurs,
Day 4

The Contours of Romance
V. Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915), 3rd part
"Monday or Tuesday" in A Haunted House and Other Stories, 6-7
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Wed.. at 9 p.m.: Hanley thru Van Wingerden
Night and Day
Tues,
Day 5

Conversation, Interrupted
V. Woolf's Night and Day (1919), chps 1-20
no additional text this time . . .
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Mon. at 6 p.m.: Alexovich thru Gibson

Night and DAy
Thurs,
Day 6

What Is Love?
V. Woolf's Night and Day (1919), chps 21-34
no additional text this time . . .
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Wed.. at 9 p.m.: Hanley thru Van Wingerden
Jacob's Room
Tues,
Day 7
 Unchartered Passions
V. Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922), chps 1-8
related diary entries and letters (Norton Critical 168-74)
"Modern Novels" (175-81)
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Mon. at 6 p.m.: Alexovich thru Gibson
Jacob's Room
Thurs,
Day 8
 Dark Waters
V. Woolf's Jacob's Room (1922), chps 9-14
reviews & responses to the novel (Norton Critical 209-24)
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Wed.. at 9 p.m.: Hanley thru Van Wingerden
Mrs. Dalloway
Tues,
Day 9
 ASDF
V. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), 3-102
"Kew Gardens" in A Haunted House and Other Stories, 28-36
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Mon. at 6 p.m.: Alexovich thru Gibson
Mrs. Dalloway
Thurs
Day 10

ASDF
V. Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway (1925), 102-194
"The New Dress" in A Haunted House and Other Stories, 47-57
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Wed. at 9 p.m.: Hanley thru Van Wingerden
To the Lighthouse
Tues,
Day 11

Silent Conversations
V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927), "The Window"
"The Mark on the Wall" in A Haunted House and Other Stories, 37-46
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Mon.:. at 6 p.m.: Hanley thru Van Wingerden
To the Lighthouse
Thurs,
Day 12

ASDF
V. Woolf's To the Lighthouse (1927), "Time Passes" & "The Lighthouse"
Margaret Homans's "Mothers and Daughters in Virginia Woolf's Victorian Novel" from Bearing the Word. Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing (1986), PDF at Blackboard

  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Wed.. at 9 p.m.: Alexovich thru Gibson
Orlando
Tues,
Day 13

ASDF
Orlando (1928), chps 1-3
no companion texts required--just make sure that somewhere in your essay you include references or comparisons to Woolf's earlier work(s).
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Mon.:. at 6 p.m.: Hanley thru Van Wingerden
Orlando
Thurs,
Day 14

ASDF
Orlando (1928), chps 4-6
no companion texts required--just make sure that somewhere in your essay you include references or comparisons to Woolf's earlier work(s).
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Wed.. at 9 p.m.: Alexovich thru Gibson
A Room of One's Own
Tues,
Day 15

The Incandescent Mind
V. Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1928; 1929)
  • format:
  • no reading response essays due
The Waves
Thurs,
Day 16

ASDF
V. Woolf's The Waves (1931), pp.7-107
no companion texts required--just make sure that somewhere in your essay you include references or comparisons to Woolf's earlier work(s).
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Wed.. at 9 p.m.: Alexovich thru Gibson
The Waves
Tues,
Day 17

ASDF
V. Woolf's The Waves (1931), pp.108-235
no companion texts required--just make sure that somewhere in your essay you include references or comparisons to Woolf's earlier work(s).
  • format:
  • reading response essay due by Mon.:. at 6 p.m.: Hanley thru Van Wingerden
The Waves
Thurs,
Day 18		 ASDF
V. Woolf's The Waves (1931), pp.236-97
tableaux vivants
  • format:
  • no reading response essays due
Fri, Day tba paper conferences: Friday, ____ through Friday, _____ (sign up for a time here)  
A Sketch of the Past
Tues
Day 19

Moments of Being
"A Sketch of the Past" from Moments of Being (April 1939 - Nov 1940; 1976), pdfs (available at Blackboard)
  • format:
  • no reading response essays due
 
Thurs
Day 20

ASDF
two short somethings from A Haunted House and Other Stories??
  • format:
  • no reading response essays due
Thurs,
Day 20 		6-8 p.m. / final (oral exam) & dinner at the Marchbanks's (those who cannot make this time will together--w/ Dr. M--choose an alternative office visit period during finals week). Assigned novels for oral exam.  
Wed, Day tba
TERM PAPER due at midnight
(send Word file via email)
 
Fri, Day tba
SENIOR PROJECTS due at midnight
(send Word file via email)
 

 


"Seated Woman with Wrist Watch" (1932)
Pablo Picasso

 


Dr. Paul Marchbanks
pmarchba@calpoly.edu