stream of consciousness fiction

A novel in which the author uses the story of Tristram Shandy, a country gentleman, as a backdrop for digressions mocking the foibles of human nature.

Literary Masterpieces is one series of the trio that makes up the Gale Study Guides to Great Literature (the others are Literary Topics and Literary Masters). Each Literary Masterpieces volume chooses a book by one of the authors covered in Literary Masters and offers a discussion of themes, characters, comparisons with social events of the era when the book was written and a critical analysis. Virginia Woolf is famous for her feminist and modernist fiction and nonfiction, despite being born in 1882 into the British Victorian world of claustrophobic respectability and strict hierarchy. Mrs. Dalloway was published in 1925 and the entire novel takes place in London on a June day in 1923. Mrs. Dalloway is shopping for a party she is giving that evening and she meets various characters from her past during the course of the day while she is shopping.