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Virginia Woolf, Internal + External :star:, Reality of the hardship and…

- - - - The title, "The Hours," emphasizes the theme of time in the book,
  - - - “This presumption of human transcendence has remained at the heart of subsequent philosophy, as well as functioning as the metaphoric grounding of modern science and technology, which are predicated on human superiority to all other life and our right to control the natural world, of which we are assumed not really to be a part.”
        
        Anthropomorphic, having human characteristics
      - Separation of humanity, bond of sympathy between humans and nature is broken
      - “As the seasons and years flow by, the narrator questions the Romantic notion of nature’s sympathy with humanity, then dissolves it in a bewildering confusion and interpenetration of forms that parodies anthropomorphic projections of order upon the nonhuman world.”
      - Depiction of nature marks the departure of humanity
- - - - In Mrs. Dalloway, the importance of parentheses acts as a side note, description of fact, the "narrator"
      - Bird's eye view in A Room of One's Own, takes reader out of what's happening. People are contained as minor incidental reports. Reads like a newspaper.
    - - In To The Lighthouse, steam of consciousness allows for multiple focalizations
      - In Mrs. Dalloway, stream of consciousness is seen as a way to access time in a limited space, i.e. looking at an object and associating that with memories.
- - - - Link between ideology of proportion and repression with Sir William Bradshaw in Mrs. Dalloway
      - Critique rather than a celebration of the masculinity conquest
      - Nation and Empire
        
        Transgressiveness in terms of gender norms, folded in with gender, Orlando is the embodiment of power
  - - - "The class under examination in the novel is living on borrowed time." Nostalgia for the past is a feature of the governing class clinging to their power.
      - “Those who identify with Establishment “dominion” and “leadership,” and those who resist are repelled by it.”
    - - “All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point– a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and that you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved,” (4)
    - - “Here, indeed, we lay bare rudely, as a biographer may, a curious trait in him, to be accounted for, perhaps, by the fact that a certain grandmother of his had worn a smock and carried milkpails. Some grains of the Kentish or Sussex earth were mixed with the thin, fine fluid which came to him from Normandy. He held that the mixture of brown earth and blue blood was a good one. Certain it is that he had always a liking for low company, especially for that of lettered people whose wits so often keep them under, as if there were the sympathy of blood between them,” (28).
        
        By not emphasizing the two sides, Woolf changes the way narrative works
  - - - “Her modesty as to her writing, her vanity as to her person, her fears for her safety all seems to hint that what was said a short time ago about there being no change in Orlando the man and Orlando the woman, was ceasing to be altogether true…The change of clothes had, some philosophers will say, much to do with it. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than merely to keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us… Thus, there is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us and not we them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking,” (187-8).
      - An example of performativity is in Jamie Hovey, "Kissing a Negress in the Dark," "Queer theorists used Riviere's essay to show that gender is performed--even paradied--through masquerade."