Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925) remains a cornerstone of the modernist literary canon. Often celebrated as Woolf’s greatest novel, the plot is set in post-World War I London and revolves around a single day in the life of its protagonist, Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an evening party. Beneath its seemingly simple plot, the novel exemplifies a profound exploration of consciousness, time, and the inner lives of characters through its extensive use of the stream-of-consciousness technique. Although narrated in a third-person omniscient voice, the narrative primarily focuses on the inner consciousness of the characters. Even after a century since its publication, Woolf’s novel continues to resonate with contemporary readers through its insightful exploration of time, memory, urbanity, spatiality, and gender in the aftermath of the First World War. Over the past hundred years, Woolf’s work has prompted diverse interpretations and re-interpretations across fields such as modernist studies, feminist studies, trauma studies, queer studies, and urban studies.

The proposed edited volume (Mrs Dalloway: A Hundred Years and Beyond / Mrs Dalloway: A Century and Beyond) aims to bring together contemporary scholarship on Mrs Dalloway, providing new critical perspectives, receptions, and reinterpretations that explore aspects of Woolf’s novel that remain underexamined.

We invite abstracts (in 300 words), including, but not limited to, the following themes:

• Time, temporality, and modernist narrative techniques
• Stream-of-consciousness and the phenomenological exploration of consciousness
• Memory, mourning, and the aftermath of World War I
• Feminist interpretations of Woolf’s work
• Queer readings and alternative sexualities in Mrs Dalloway
• Urban space, mobility, and representations of London
• Class, empire, and British social hierarchies
• The body, illness, and the medical humanities
• Ecocritical, posthuman, or new materialist readings
• Intertextual or comparative approaches within modernism
• Adaptations and afterlives of Mrs Dalloway in literature, film, and across other media
• Global reception and contemporary Woolf studies

          Editors- Dr. Jaydeep Chakrabarty, Professor, Assam University Silchar

                         Arnab Bhattacharjee, Doctoral Fellow, Assam University Silchar

Important Dates-

                     Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 September 2026

                     Full Chapter Submission Deadline:(to be updated at a later date)

Publisher-We are considering approaching Orient Blackswan and Routledge for publication