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This study probes into the intersection of Virginia Woolf’s portrayal of the external world and her modernist experimentation with narrative for an analysis of the political and social implications of the party scenes in her novel The Voyage Out. It is argued that Woolf’s organization of parties in particular space settings works as a contributory factor for representation of the social realities of her time such as reconstruction of gender roles and her modernist innovations with the novelistic narratives in the starting years of the 20th century. This study brings fore Woolf’s critique of patriarchy and the debilitating nature of the nineteenth-century descriptions of femininity through the application of theories of space such as Lefebvre’s contention about space working as a site of social production, thus validating Woolf’s position of being not only a feminist theorist but also of being a feminist novelist concerned with reshaping of gender roles.

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