<div dir="ltr"><div>I‘m sorry but I think that this is a terrible idea that misses much of the point of the novel and misconstrues its relationship to historicity! First, Clarissa’s experience of urban London is not exactly peachy, in large part because she is a woman trying to negotiate male space. I’d go so far as to say that it’s traumatic, so much so that she never leaves the house again after her morning outing to buy the flowers and that it leads to the invention of Septimus Smith, a readymade victim of history/historicity, to negotiate the full encounter for her. Second, his experience isn’t peachy either. Would these Dallow-Days include ritual suicides as well? Here’s death at my party. I too am currently at the Joyce conference and at my hotel there’s a lovely restaurant called Dalloway Terrace which could serve a double purpose. People could dine in style and then fling themselves into the street below!</div><div><br></div><div>The novel actually has a complicated and uneasy relationship to historicity and both thematizes and dramatizes that relationship. While Woolf locates the novel primarily in day-time (an unspecified Wednesday in the middle of June), as it unfolds it gradually approaches a confrontation with date-time and that confrontation is at the moment of suicide, when Septimus reads from a newspaper and mentions a cricket match, and Peter Walsh later corroborates it. All the London newspapers report a match between Surrey and Yorkshire on June 20, 1923. To engage in historicity in this way threatens the autonomy/sovereignty of the fiction, which Woolf has been intent, as Anne suggests, to preserve, but it's also necessary (for a number of reasons) for Woolf to have that engagement. While I agree that we need to be very careful with this business, I do not agree that there is no point of contingency between the day of the novel a real date:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.academia.edu/18174757/Dating_Mrs_Dalloway_the_Use_and_Abuse_of_History">https://www.academia.edu/18174757/Dating_Mrs_Dalloway_the_Use_and_Abuse_of_History</a> </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Michael F. Davis, Ph.D.<div>Associate Professor<br>Associate Chair<br>Department of English</div><div>Le Moyne College</div><div>Syracuse, NY 13214</div><div>USA<br><br><br></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 9:52 PM, James Gifford <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james.d.gifford@gmail.com" target="_blank">james.d.gifford@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">"Dallow-Days" -- the plural would not only give more Wednesdays for fun but would be more in the spirit...<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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On 2016-06-13 1:38 PM, Anne Fernald wrote:<br>
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It *is* a beautiful idea and I'd be 100% in favor of finding a way to<br>
celebrate a Dallow-Day--we dream of it every June, don't we?<br>
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Even so, I find myself unable to resist the pedantic point that there is<br>
no possible way to date which Wednesday in June the novel is set on.<br>
Woolf actively resisted the possibility of such dating as David<br>
Bradshaw's work and the work of others has conclusively shown.<br>
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Sorry! I LOVE a party, but I value accuracy, too.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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Anne<br>
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 2:14 PM, Anne Margaret Daniel<br></span><span class="">
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A lovely idea -- and one I believe currently trending on Twitter, in<br>
London at least, as #Dallowday. Elaine Showalter's video is getting<br>
many views on this beautiful summer's day.<br>
(and, also, happy birthday today to William Butler Yeats!)<br>
Happy rereading, with larks and plunges, to all.<br>
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 1:34 PM, Kristin Czarnecki<br>
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An endorsement for creating a Mrs. Dallowday:<br>
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Bring out the cardies and cocktails – it’s time we celebrated<br>
Dallowday<br></span>
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