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The Spatiotemporal Topography of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway:…
The Spatiotemporal Topography of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: Comparing Britain's transition to a relative modernity.
Virginia Woolf
Einstein
simultaneity
newer theories
affects characters
interprets words
Mr Bentley
considers the achievements of humankid
technology it produced
write about it
gramophone
airplane
interest in physics
level of awareness
popular theories
shapes and complements writing
Woolf's view in reality
common with David Bohm
implication order
fascinated by science
represents space and time
prop
static stage for events
Modernist Zeitgeist
shifts from Newton to Einstein
authors treatment of perspective accords
Mrs Dalloway
characters
ponder the implications of modern science
Clarissa
feminist time-space post war
sense of otherness
defined in relation to different subjects and objects
struggle to fit human experience
rationalist paradigms
mechanical force
roam streets of London
lives before war
spatiotemporal perceptions
directly linked to the setting they inhabit
Big Ben
recalls character to present time
Clarissa
chimes
imagines that she modifies city around her
carries leaden weight of authority
shifting of space in respect to time
announced the beginning of the day
timepiece of London
past and present
focus on modern city
strike
indescribable pause
shell shocked
Septimus Warren Smith
central character
ex war veteran
incapable of situating himself in present space or moment in time
suicide
Clarissa relates
religion and romance
boundless sense of spatiality
feels connected to everyhting around him
resists adapting
increment time
distant past
see into future
PTSD Symptom
time has no place in war
Septimus refuses to acknowledge
spatiotemporal perception
Different viewpoints
changing social climate
Post War
Einstein's theories
metaphor
mechanistic working of universe
single entity
understand in relation
vast web of interrelationships
fact
centuries entrenched beliefs
