Authors: Virginia Woolf, Mark Hussey (Editor), Bonnie Kime Scott
ISBN-13: 9780156030359, ISBN-10: 0156030357
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Date Published: August 2005
Edition: Annotated Edition
The early decades of the 20th century saw the rise of the experimental novel, and few writers had more success with their experiments than Virginia Woolf. Her innovative approach as a novelist, critic, and biographer made her an author who is even more widely read today than she was in her own time.
Harcourt is proud to introduce new annotated editions of three Virginia Woolf classics, ideal for the college classroom and beyond. For the first time, students reading these books will have the resources at hand to help them understand the text as well as the reasons and methods behind Woolf's writing. We've commissioned the best-known Woolf scholars in the field to provide invaluable introductions, editing, critical analysis, and suggestions for further reading. These much-awaited volumes are the first of many annotated Woolf editions Harcourt plans on publishing in the coming years.
This brilliant novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparations for a party she is to give that evening,Woolf ultimately managed to reveal much more; for it is the feeling behind these daily events that gives Mrs. Dalloway its texture and richness and makes it so memorable.
Annotated and with an introduction by Bonnie Scott
Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realization of experiments that have completely broken with tradition.
Acknowledgements | ||
General Editors' Preface | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Virginia Woolf | 23 |
2 | Figures of Desire: Narration and Fiction in To the Lighthouse | 33 |
3 | Mrs Dalloway: Repetition as Raising of the Dead | 45 |
4 | Repression in Mrs Dalloway's London | 57 |
5 | Hume, Stephen, and Elegy in To the Lighthouse | 71 |
6 | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Feminist readings of Woolf | 87 |
7 | Mrs Dalloway | 98 |
8 | 'Cam the Wicked': Woolf's Portrait of the Artist as her Father's Daughter | 112 |
9 | Mothers and Daughters in Virginia Woolf's Victorian Novel | 130 |
10 | Thinking Forward Through Mrs Dalloway's Daughter | 142 |
Further Reading | 156 | |
Notes on Contributors | 162 | |
Index | 164 |