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1、MidwestModernLanguageAssociationEquatingPerformancewithIdentity:TheFailureofClarissaDalloway'sVictorian"Self"inVirginiaWoolf's"Mrs.Dalloway"Author(s):ShannonForbesReviewedwork(s):Source:TheJournaloftheMidwestModernLanguageAssociation,Vol.38,No.1,SpecialConv
2、entionIssue:Performance(Spring,2005),pp.38-50Publishedby:MidwestModernLanguageAssociationStableURL:http://www.jstor.org/stable/30039298.Accessed:27/05/201220:49YouruseoftheJSTORarchiveindicatesyouracceptanceoftheTerms&ConditionsofUse,availableat.http://www.
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4、rmsofscholarship.FormoreinformationaboutJSTOR,pleasecontactsupport@jstor.org.MidwestModernLanguageAssociationiscollaboratingwithJSTORtodigitize,preserveandextendaccesstoTheJournaloftheMidwestModernLanguageAssociation.http://www.jstor.orgEquatingPerformancew
5、ithIdentity:TheFailureofClarissaDalloway'sVictorian"Self"inVirginiaWoolf'sMrs.DallowayShannonForbesLyttonStracheywroteinABiographyofQueenVictoriathat"intruthitisdifficulttotraceanyfundamentalchangeinQueenVictoria'stheoryorherpracticeinconstitutionalmatterst
6、hroughoutherlife....[T]hegirl,thewife,theagedwomanwerethesame"(262).RobertBrowningwrotein1864inhisfamousDramatisPersonaethat"Mycareisformyself;/Myselfamwholeandsolereality"("Mr.Sludge,TheMedium"XXXVII:32-33).JohnRuskin,similarly,statedinhisautobiography,Pra
7、eterita,asheapproachedtheageofseventy,thatuponlookingbackonhislife,"Ifindmyselfinnothingwhatsoeverchanged"(220).ThesecommentsarerepletewithmeaningbecausetheyrepresentthewayVictoriansprivi-legedwhatMaudeEllmanndescribesinThePoeticsofImpersonalityas"theunifie
8、dtranscendentconsciousnessthatthenineteenthcenturyhadunderstoodas'personality"(16).AccordingtoBanWangin"'I'ontheRun:CrisisofIdentityinMrs.Dalloway,"thisnineteenth-centurytradi-tionofconceivingofthesubj
