The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway

Edward Mendelson explores the deepest questions of Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love.

Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography (2017); Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers (2015); and The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (2007). His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement.