- Title Pages
- First Nations Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations
- Multidisciplinary Woolf / Multiple Woolfs?
- Woolf, History, Us
- “Full of Experiments and Reforms”
-
Desiring Statues
and Ambiguous Sexualities in Jacob’s Room1 - Challenging the Family Script
- History as Scaffolding
- Vincent Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, and Old Shoes
- Stopped at the Border
- “Q. And Babies? A. And babies”
- Photography, History, and Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
- “Waving to Virginia”
- Woolf, Defoe, Derrida
- “The law is on the side of the normal”
- A Healing Center of One’s Own
- Sunflower Suture
- “One Must Be Scientific”
- Clarissa’s Glacial Skepticism
- Apollonian Illusion and Dionysian Truth in Mrs. Dalloway
- “Time has Whizzed back an inch or two on its reel”
- Speaking Citizen to Citizen in a Time of War
- Work as Salvation
- Drawing as Thinking
- Performing Feminism, Transmitting Affect
- Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector
- Mystical Gibberish or Renegade Discourse?
-
Selves and Others as Narrative Participants in Woolf’s Novels
1 - “The most unaccountable of machinery”
- The Hotel at the End of the Universe
- Globalization, Inter-Connectivity, and Anti-Imperialism
- Chinese Eyes and Muddled Armenians
- “No One Wants Biography”
- There Goes the Bride
- Redefining Woolf for the 1990s
- The Believers
- The Woolfs in Print and Online
- Notes on Contributors
- 22nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary Woolf: Conference Program
Clarissa’s Glacial Skepticism
Clarissa’s Glacial Skepticism
John Tyndall and “Deep Time” in Mrs. Dalloway
- Chapter:
- (p.132) Clarissa’s Glacial Skepticism
- Source:
- Interdisciplinary/Multidisciplinary Woolf
- Author(s):
Catherine W. Hollis
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
This chapter focuses on Leslie Stephen's mountaineering, from his footsteps up mountains to his daughter's knowledge of glaciology, in Mrs. Dalloway. It considers Virginia Woolf's characterization of Clarissa Dalloway, and her responses to grief, time, and trauma, in relation to order and emotional disorder. Clarissa (and a young Virginia Stephen) would have been familiar with the biologist Thomas Huxley and the physicist John Tyndall as Victorian proponents of secularism, supporters of Charles Darwin, and members of the influential X Club, a social club organized around a “devotion to science, pure and free, untrammeled by religious dogmas.” The chapter then examines Tyndall's influence on Woolf as far as her own interest in the wave-like structure of identity over time is concerned. It also considers Clarissa's frozen, or repressed, grief and how it generates a skepticism informed by Victorian earth science that downplays the human era in favor of the planetary epoch.
Keywords: mountaineering, Leslie Stephen, mountains, glaciology, Mrs. Dalloway, grief, trauma, John Tyndall, earth science
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- Title Pages
- First Nations Acknowledgment
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Virginia Woolf Standard Abbreviations
- Multidisciplinary Woolf / Multiple Woolfs?
- Woolf, History, Us
- “Full of Experiments and Reforms”
-
Desiring Statues
and Ambiguous Sexualities in Jacob’s Room1 - Challenging the Family Script
- History as Scaffolding
- Vincent Van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, and Old Shoes
- Stopped at the Border
- “Q. And Babies? A. And babies”
- Photography, History, and Memoir of the Spanish Civil War
- “Waving to Virginia”
- Woolf, Defoe, Derrida
- “The law is on the side of the normal”
- A Healing Center of One’s Own
- Sunflower Suture
- “One Must Be Scientific”
- Clarissa’s Glacial Skepticism
- Apollonian Illusion and Dionysian Truth in Mrs. Dalloway
- “Time has Whizzed back an inch or two on its reel”
- Speaking Citizen to Citizen in a Time of War
- Work as Salvation
- Drawing as Thinking
- Performing Feminism, Transmitting Affect
- Virginia Woolf and Clarice Lispector
- Mystical Gibberish or Renegade Discourse?
-
Selves and Others as Narrative Participants in Woolf’s Novels
1 - “The most unaccountable of machinery”
- The Hotel at the End of the Universe
- Globalization, Inter-Connectivity, and Anti-Imperialism
- Chinese Eyes and Muddled Armenians
- “No One Wants Biography”
- There Goes the Bride
- Redefining Woolf for the 1990s
- The Believers
- The Woolfs in Print and Online
- Notes on Contributors
- 22nd Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf: Interdisciplinary / Multidisciplinary Woolf: Conference Program