Friday, October 17, 2008

Paper Topic Ideas

I feel like I’ve learned a lot about both Woolf and Eliot thus far this semester. Some of the topics I’ve thought about writing about concerning Woolf and or Eliot are as follow:
Saffism, Vivienne Eliot, Men in Woolf works, Monk’s house and its affect on Woolf’s literary works, Woolf and Eliot’s feelings towards the Romantcis, and anger in A Room of One’s Own.  
Saffism interests me because it deals with the relationship between women. I think it would be interesting to tie this together with the homosexual relationships that people often think are associated with Eliot. It is hard to see the homosexual elements, to me, in both Eliot and Woolf’s work but I’m sure upon further research it is possible to see them
Vivienne Eliot interests me, but I’m not sure she made enough of a dent for there to be enough information on her. I’m also contemplating Elizabeth Hail as a muse of Eliot.
Men in Woolf’s work interests me because often Woolf focuses on women but I feel she takes the same voyeuristic approach that men previously too to write about women as she writes about men. It is almost as though she reverses the roles and becomes like a man. Also, she also seems to try to equalize men and women along some lines. This calls to my attention A Room of One’s Own and Mrs. Dalloway.  
I’m not sure about the other topics because they may be too vague and have far too little information. I think they may be good references in other essays. I think the idea of Woolf’s perception of the romantics may influence her own perception of men, as characters and as authors.

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