Date of Award
11-20-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
English
First Advisor
Randy Malamud - Committee Chair
Second Advisor
Margaret Mills Harper - Committee Member
Third Advisor
Paul Schmidt - Committee Member
Abstract
The First World War wrought untold destruction on the physical and psychological landscape of Europe. For Britain, the immediate post-war period represented no less than a national “nostos,” or homecoming, and few social institutions were so fragmented by the conflict as the home. This thesis will explore the various conceptions of “home,” from the nation and the domestic sphere to post-war consciousness, through the lens of Virginia Woolf’s "Mrs. Dalloway" and Rebecca West’s "The Return of the Soldier." Though unique in style and scope, Woolf and West interrogate and revise pre-war notions of “home” and suggest a Modernist aesthetic of what it is to be both at “home” and at home in the world.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1348313
Recommended Citation
Strom, James Harper, "Modernist Aesthetics of "Home" in Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Rebecca West's The Return of the Soldier." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2009.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1348313