Title
Against the Quotidian Machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Machine-made traumas of war reverberate through Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and, in turn, The Sun Also Rises, not only as matters of fact but as elements of narrative structure. Examines Jake Barnes’s inability to escape the reality of his wound, a condition triggered and endlessly refracted by modern technology. Discusses the telephone, airplanes, and automobiles as mechanical, destabilizing forces in Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (1913).
Published in
Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel
Date
2019
Pages
133-152
COinS
Citation
Meadowsong, Zena. “Against the Quotidian Machine: Woolf, Hemingway, and Proust.” In Narrative Machine: The Naturalist, Modernist, and Postmodernist Novel, 133-52. New York: Routledge, 2019.