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Woolf's Mrs Dalloway.(writer Virginia Woolf)(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20020922
Author:Hoff, Molly

Because Virginia Woolf used "The Hours" as a working title for her novel, it has been suggested that this must refer to the canonical hours of religious observance in the Christian liturgy. Richter explicates the relevance to this daily and daylong pious practice in detail. She suggests, however, that because Woolf was an agnostic "it is tempting to bypass any religious symbolism" and to observe the ironic contrast such a pattern brings to "the secular day" (Richter 239). The operative word here is "secular."

The exemplars for such books, called "hours," are in the British ...

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