Episode 89: Mrs. Dalloway

Modernist grouch, Bloomsbury group member, Freud-to-tea-haver, and Great Novelist Virginia Woolf takes center stage in our discussion of Mrs. Dalloway (1925). We recommend this book if you like books or good writing, and we discuss interwar anxiety, shell shock, gender trouble, and class. This episode also features some discussion of real nerd shit, including Viennese playwright/libertine Arthur Schnitzler and many, many Star Trek opinions. Many. Even for us.

We read the new Liveright (Norton) edition with truly marvelous notes and introduction by Merve Emre. We recommend Elizabeth Abel’s Virginia Woolf and the Fictions of Psychoanalysis, because she shares our affection for reading Woolf with Freud.

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