Minor Characters Have Their Day by Rosen Jeremy;

Author:Rosen, Jeremy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT006000, Literary Criticism/Semiotics & Theory, LIT004020, Literary Criticism/American/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-10-04T04:00:00+00:00

This book is a creative response to the great novel Mrs. Dalloway, following twenty-five years of passionate immersion in the life and work of Virginia Woolf. The extracts from Woolf’s writings which appear at the beginning of the book both inspired Mr. Dalloway and invited me to write it. I offer it as a token, however meager, of my admiration—the kind of admiration only one writer can have for one another. 64

It is difficult to imagine a more dramatic illustration of the strategy of annexation. Lippincott exalts Woolf, claims that she not only authorized his work but invited it, and finally poses his humble admiration as the privileged kind only a writer can feel. If the overt concern of Lippincott’s novel is to show that Richard Dalloway was, like his wife, forced to suppress his homosexual desire and to foster sympathy with his perspective, underlying this project is Lippincott’s possession of stores of cultural capital accumulated over twenty-five years. If, as Guillory writes, the author “returns in the critique of the canon, not as the genius, but as the representative of social identity,” in the genre of minor-character elaboration this identity similarly may be a matter of race, gender, or sexual orientation, but it is unlikely to be a lower-class one. 65

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