ABSTRACT
As in Lawrence, domestic space in Woolf is a multifaceted, dynamic social space that individuals perceive and experience differently according to gender and class. Going against the Victorian picture of domestic space that mainly reflects the patriarch’s perspective and experience, such works as A Sketch of the Past, “Great Men’s Houses,” and Mrs. Dalloway feature domestic places like a dining room, a drawing room, or a party table as a socio-historical arena produced by the labor of women and/or the working class. Although Woolf persistently exposes unequal power relations between different genders and classes in domestic space, she does not turn the space into a pure determinant of human life. Instead, she destabilizes its seemingly rigid structure and envisions the possibility of remolding it by foregrounding the often-obscured practices and spatial codes of the marginalized.
