POSTPONED Library Talks | Mrs Dalloway, The Centenary Year: ‘Art, Modernism & War’

PLEASE NOTE: This talk has been postponed.

Our next Library talk comes from returning speaker, Sarah Latham-Phillips, MA. On Wednesday 27th August (2pm-3pm) she will be speaking about Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway in the centenary year of the novel.

Sarah’s illustrated talk will place Virginia Woolf in the context of Modernism and the contemporary art and literature scene, explaining briefly the key changes from Victorian to Modernist literature.

She will then highlight these new modernist ideas in Woolf’s writing of Mrs Dalloway: stream of consciousness, rhythm, time, multiple viewpoints, fragmentation, perspective, psychology and light and reflection. She will also consider  the subjects of war, shell shock and London.

Illustrating her talk, Sarah will use the ideas of Roger Fry, Clive Bell and the Post Impressionist Exhibitions in London of 1910 and 1912, the influences particularly of Picasso, Matisse and Cezanne and will add some stunning First World War paintings by CRW Nevinson and Paul Nash, amongst others.

Sarah Latham Phillips, MA is a member of the executive council of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, a freelance lecturer in Art History and English Literature, and has published on Virginia Woolf as a Cubist Writer.

Tickets are allocated by a ballot system. Please email enquiries@morrablibrary.org.uk or call 01736 364474 to be entered into the ballot for a ticket. The ballot closes on Monday 18th August. Entry to this event is free but donations are welcomed to help support The Morrab Library (suggested £5). Refreshments will be provided after the talk.