Kylie Horan '24, English, was just published in the Virginia Woolf Miscellany (on Woolf's birthday, no less), with her paper "Woolf, Will, and the War Bride: Cymbeline and The Figure of Fascist Italy in Mrs. Dalloway."
As Kylie posted on her LinkedIn page, "The first English course I took at Villanova—the one that confirmed I truly had to study literature—was a semester-long dive into Woolf’s body of work taught by the incomparable Dr. Megan Quigley. Eighteen years old and a bit out of my depth, I was stunned by the beauty of Woolf’s words; I felt I had begun a relationship with her books that would last the rest of my lifetime."
As Kylie notes in the Miscellany, "The essay is the author’s adaptation of her final essay for ENG 5000: Woolf and Her Daughters, completed during her undergraduate studies at Villanova University." In the paper, Kylie argues that "Woolf revises Shakespeare’s political parable for a post-war Europe by doubling Rezia with Imogen as the synecdoche of her country, ultimately destabilizing Imogen’s (and thus Britain’s) happy ending to reflect the foreboding future influence of newly fascist Italy."
Kylie's paper, which won the Angelica Garnett Undergraduate Essay Prize, is featured in the most recent issue of the Miscellany, which can be read on the Miscellany's site here (Kylie's paper starts on p. 32).
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