You're warmly invited to our modernist party to celebrate the centennial of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway! Come and explore the dynamics at parties in modernist literature - RSVP for your spot!
At this interactive talk, Gwenda and Violet, both PhD students in English modernist studies, will give a brief sharing on their current related research: Gwenda on 'Wandering Thoughts of a Crammed Mind' in Virginia Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway's Party' stories, and Violet on 'Death at the Party' in Woolf's 'Mrs. Dalloway' and Katherine Mansfield's 'The Garden Party'. Afterwards we will hold discussions on various interesting aspects of the modernist party: the exposed sense of self, the difficulty of connection, a collective consciousness, and draw on other kinds of modernist parties from writers like Katherine Mansfield and T.S. Eliot.
The Cambridge Festival will take place between 19 March and 4 April 2025. The full programme will launch for bookings on 17 February 2025: https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/
