Vol. 1 No. 61 (2025): Flores para Virginia Woolf: o centenário de Mrs. Dalloway

The 2020s decade was a period full of great transformations, as the pandemic affected the globe in a deep way, forcing us to reflect on our present and on its literary connections with the twentieth century. At this moment our attention is focused on the Woolfian texts which complete a centenary, especially Mrs. Dalloway. Since 2022, Virginia Woolf’s most experimental works, including Jacob’s Room, reach 100 years since their publication, celebrating modernism along with The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot and Ulysses by James Joyce. In relation to her essays, published in 1922, Woolf wrote two of which could be emphasized: “Dostoyevsky, the Father” and “Jane Austen Practicing”, two great authors on whom Woolf wrote all her life. In 1923, among her most important essays, it could be highlighted “Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown” and “How it strikes a Contemporary”, which reflect upon modern fiction and how it was defining itself. In 1924, Woolf wrote approximately forty-two essays, from which it would be difficult to single out only two or three, even though, we would highlight “Montaigne” and “The Lives of the Obscure”, which discusses the obscure lives of women writers, who were absent from History, which later would give rise to her most emblematic character, Judith Shakespeare in A Room of One’s Own. Thinking about these century-year old texts and on how they have impacted contemporary literature, criticism and thought, we invite submissions of papers that can reflect on Mrs. Dalloway and intermediality in dialogue with the most diverse arts; Mrs. Dalloway and feminist criticism; Mrs. Dalloway and ecofeminism; Mrs. Dalloway and Translation Studies; Mrs. Dalloway and Gender and Queer Studies. In a nutshell, this call for papers proposes a discussion on Mrs. Dalloway in dialogue with modernism, post-modernism, post(de)-colonialism and the post-pandemic world. Finally, as a form of celebration, it will also accept articles on Woolf in contact with other media and other arts.