Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway

by Harold Bloom

181 pages, Library Binding

Published December 12, 1987

About the author

Harold Bloom was an American literary critic and the Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. In 2017, Bloom was called "probably the most famous literary critic in the English-speaking world." After publishing his first book in 1959, Bloom wrote more than 50 books, including over 40 books of literary criticism, several books discussing religion, and one novel. He edited hundreds of anthologies concerning numerous literary and philosophical figures for the Chelsea House publishing firm. Bloom's books have been translated into more than 40 languages. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1995.
Bloom was a defender of the traditional Western canon at a time when literature departments were focusing on what he derided as the "school of resentment" (multiculturalists, feminists, Marxists, and others). He was educated at Yale University, the University of Cambridge, and Cornell University.

Reviews

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This review is about the Harold Bloom collection of critical essays on Mrs. Dalloway... NOT about the actual book itself by Virginia Woolf as many of you idiots cannot comprehend....

I own many of Harold Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations. This one is pretty good, but not the best collection.

Four of the essays, The Symbolic Keyboard, Mrs. Dalloway (Hermione Lee), Narrative Structure(s) and the Female Development: The Case of Mrs. Dalloway, and Mrs. Dalloway and the Social System are all great reads, especially the last two.

The other essays are unintelligible nonsense that might as well have been written in Greek, for they are unreadable pseudo-intellectualism.

Mrs. Dalloway is a masterpiece and anyone who is interested in learning more about this very complex and complicated novel should definitely read this collection of essays.

[The Mundane Life · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not gonna lie it was a pretty difficult read. The story it tells is marvelous; but honestly the structure is quiet difficult for me to go through.

[Julia · Rating 4 out of 5]

A really beautiful book but at times rather difficult to understand.