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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThis book includes essays, unpublished sketches, Woolf's social realist 1919 novel Night and Day, and her final, visionary novel Between the Acts. This approach to Woolf's writing takes an integrated view, incorporating her juvenilia and foregrounding Woolf's critically neglected early novels.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThis set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Note on the Text; Chapter 1 The Voyage Out: 26 March 1915; Chapter 2 ‘Kew Gardens’: 12 May 1919; Chapter 3 Night and Day: 20 October 1919; Chapter 4 Monday or Tuesday: 7 April 1921; Chapter 5 Jacob’s Room: 27 October 1922; Chapter 6 ‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’ (First Version) 1923; Chapter 7 ‘Character in Fiction’ 1924; Chapter 8 ‘Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown’ (Second Version) 30 October 1924.; Chapter 9 The Common Reader (First Series) 23 April 1925; Chapter 10 Mrs Dalloway: 14 May 1925; Chapter 11 To the Lighthouse: 5 May 1927; Chapter 12 Orlando: 2 October 1928; Chapter 13 A Room of One’s Own: 24 October 1929; Chapter 14 The Waves: October 1931; Chapter 15 Flush: 5 October 1933; Chapter 16 The Years: 13 March 1937; Chapter 17 Three Guineas: 4 June 1938; Chapter 18 Roger Fry: 25 July 1940; Chapter 19 Obituary Notices; Chapter 20 Between the Acts: 17 July 1941;
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University of Toronto Press Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThis study investigates how the medium of sound and its most representative art form of music enable Virginia Woolf to develop fresh concepts and methods in her experimental fiction.Trade Review"Clements’s book explores Woolf’s sustained attention to the production and reception of sound, gathering together arguments about sonic events, art music, and language in Woolf’s work. Through her bold scope, astute close readings, and careful theoretical expositions, she provides a sophisticated account of the vital importance of sound production and reception to Woolf’s ethics and experimentation." -- Emma Sutton * Woolf Studies Annual *"Elicia Clements in Virginia Woolf, Music, Sound and Language (2019) takes a deep dive into these relationships and argues that the concepts of sound and music enabled Woolf to develop a new understanding of her own writing and literature. This is new and exciting." -- Patricia Laurence, City College, City University of New York * Virginia Woolf Miscellany *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction I. Woolf's Musical Ear II. Interdisciplinary Methods III. "Hoity te, hoity te, hoity te …": Tripartite Woolf Part 1 An Emerging Earcon: Woolf's Singers 1. Finding a Voice I. Resonant Beginnings: The Voyage Out II. Sonic Networks in Jacob's Room III. Urban and Rural Interrelations in Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse 2. The Earcon Reproduces I. "And what is a cry?": The Waves II. Integrating the Earcon in The Years III. Aural Multiplicity in Between the Acts Part 2 Profound Listening and Acousmatics 3. Initial Apperceptions I. Materialized Sonics and Listening Subjects in The Voyage Out II. Involuntary, Yet Profound, Listening in Night and Day III. International Acousmatics: War and Its Veterans in Jacob's Room and Mrs. Dalloway 4. Bodies and Voices I. To the Lighthouse and Family Acousmatics II. The Gender of Listening in The Waves III. "Hush!... Somebody's listening": The Years IV. Heterogeneous Reattachments in Between the Acts Part 3 Music as Performance in Woolf's Fiction 5. Performing Women I. Women at the Piano in the First Three Novels II. Performing Personal History in The Years III. Historical Reenactments: Between the Acts 6. The Performativity of Language: The Waves Musicalized I. Word Music: "(The rhythm is the main thing in writing)" II. The Case of Ludwig van Beethoven III. Transforming Beethoven's Opus 130 and 133 into Words Coda: A Meditation on Rhythm Notes Works Cited Index
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Edinburgh University Press Reading Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisThe pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book as Julia Briggs reconsiders Woolf's work - from some of her earliest fictional experiments to her late short story, 'The Symbol', and from the most to the least familiar of her novels.Trade ReviewEach essay casts a fresh eye over well-scrutinised texts. ! Blurred images ! were suddenly rendered sharp and clean by seeing them through Brigg's lens. ! This is academic writing of the highest order. Virginia Woolf Bulletin All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired and provocative readings of Woolf's work embedded in strong historical and biographical context. -- Vara Neverow, Southern Connecticut State University and President of the International Virginia Woolf Society Julia Brigg's wide-ranging collection of essays provides readers with multiple avenues by which to explore Virginia Woolf's canon ... This is a book that presents, as Woolf explains in "Modern Fiction" of life itself, "question after question which must be left to sound on and on after the story is over." -- Andrea Adolph, Kent State University Stark Campus Woolf Studies Annual Each essay casts a fresh eye over well-scrutinised texts. ! Blurred images ! were suddenly rendered sharp and clean by seeing them through Brigg's lens. ! This is academic writing of the highest order. All of the essays are intriguing, providing rare, inspired and provocative readings of Woolf's work embedded in strong historical and biographical context. Julia Brigg's wide-ranging collection of essays provides readers with multiple avenues by which to explore Virginia Woolf's canon ... This is a book that presents, as Woolf explains in "Modern Fiction" of life itself, "question after question which must be left to sound on and on after the story is over."Table of ContentsIntroduction: 'Such Absences!'; 1. VW Reads Shakespeare, or Her Silence on Master William; 2. 'The Proper Writing of Lives': Biography versus Fiction in the early short stories; 3. Night and Day: the Marriage of Dreams and Realities; 4. Reading People, Reading Texts: 'Byron and Mrs Briggs'; 5. Modernism's Lost Hope: Virginia Woolf, Hope Mirrlees and the printing of Paris; 6. The Search for Form (i): Fry, Formalism and Fiction; 7. The Search for Form (ii): Woolf and the Numbers of Time; 8. 'This Moment I Stand On': Woolf and the Spaces in Time; 9. 'Like a Shell on a Sandhill': the World of Things in To the Lighthouse; 10. Constantinople: Woolf at the Crossroads of the Imagination; 11. The Conversation Behind the Conversation: Speaking the Unspeakable; 12. 'Cut deep... and scored thick...': Woolf's Later Short Stories; 13. 'Almost Ashamed of England Being so English': Woolf and Englishness; 14. Between the Texts: Woolf's Acts of Revision.
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Indiana University Press Virginia Woolf and Music
Book SynopsisIncludes essays that explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works).Trade ReviewInvolving numerous disciplines from history and biography to cultural and inter-media studies . . . Virginia Woolf and Music requires readers to cope with the span of Western culture from ancient history to the latest neologisms. * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *Virginia Woolf and Music is a fascinating and important contribution to scholarship about Virginia Woolf, music, and interdisciplinary art. * Music Reference Services Quarterly *This well-researched collection has value for those interested in music as well as in literature. . . . Recommended. * Choice *In a letter to Elizabeth Trevelyan . . . Virginia Woolf revealed: 'I always think of my books as music before I write them.' [This book is] providing a valuable counterpoint to studies that develop Woolf's interest in the visual arts at the expense of her engagements with music and performance. * Times Literary Supplement *Overall, Virginia Woolf and Music is a truly comprehensive, multi-perspective, and up-to-date survey of the undeniable role of music inWoolf 's life and writings. * Music and Letters *Table of ContentsPreface / Mihály Szegedy-MaszákList of AbbreviationsIntroduction / Adriana VargaPart I: Music and Bloomsbury Culture1. Bloomsbury and Music / Rosemary Lloyd2. Virginia Woolf and Musical Culture / Miháy Szegedy-MaszákPart II Ut Musica Poesis: Music and the Novel3. Music, Language, and Moments of Being: From The Voyage Out to Between the Acts / Adriana Varga4. The Birth of Rachel Vinrace from the Spirit of Music / Jim Stewart5. "The Worst of Music": Listening and Narrative in Night and Day and "The String Quartet" / Vanessa Manhire6. Flying Dutchmen, Wandering Jews: Romantic Opera, Anti-Semitism and Jewish Mourning in Mrs Dalloway / Emma Sutton7. The Efficacy of Performance: Musical Events in The Years / Elicia Clements8. Sounding the Past: The Music in Between the Acts / Trina ThompsonPart III Music, Art, Film and Virginia Woolf's Modernist Aesthetics8. Broken Music, Broken History: Sounds and Silence in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts / Sanja Bahun9. "Shivering Fragments": Music, Art, and Dance In Virginia Woolf's Writing / Evelyn Haller10. Chiming the Hours: A Philip Glass Soundtrack / Roger Hillman and Deborah Crisp ContributorsIndex
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Indiana University Press Virginia Woolf and Music
Book SynopsisIncludes essays that explore music and its relationship to language, aesthetics, and culture in the life and work of the preeminent Modernist writer Virginia Woolf (Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and other works).Trade ReviewInvolving numerous disciplines from history and biography to cultural and inter-media studies . . . Virginia Woolf and Music requires readers to cope with the span of Western culture from ancient history to the latest neologisms. * Virginia Woolf Bulletin *Virginia Woolf and Music is a fascinating and important contribution to scholarship about Virginia Woolf, music, and interdisciplinary art. * Music Reference Services Quarterly *This well-researched collection has value for those interested in music as well as in literature. . . . Recommended. * Choice *In a letter to Elizabeth Trevelyan . . . Virginia Woolf revealed: 'I always think of my books as music before I write them.' [This book is] providing a valuable counterpoint to studies that develop Woolf's interest in the visual arts at the expense of her engagements with music and performance. * Times Literary Supplement *Overall, Virginia Woolf and Music is a truly comprehensive, multi-perspective, and up-to-date survey of the undeniable role of music inWoolf 's life and writings. * Music and Letters *Table of ContentsPreface / Mihály Szegedy-MaszákList of AbbreviationsIntroduction / Adriana VargaPart I: Music and Bloomsbury Culture1. Bloomsbury and Music / Rosemary Lloyd2. Virginia Woolf and Musical Culture / Miháy Szegedy-MaszákPart II Ut Musica Poesis: Music and the Novel3. Music, Language, and Moments of Being: From The Voyage Out to Between the Acts / Adriana Varga4. The Birth of Rachel Vinrace from the Spirit of Music / Jim Stewart5. "The Worst of Music": Listening and Narrative in Night and Day and "The String Quartet" / Vanessa Manhire6. Flying Dutchmen, Wandering Jews: Romantic Opera, Anti-Semitism and Jewish Mourning in Mrs Dalloway / Emma Sutton7. The Efficacy of Performance: Musical Events in The Years / Elicia Clements8. Sounding the Past: The Music in Between the Acts / Trina ThompsonPart III Music, Art, Film and Virginia Woolf's Modernist Aesthetics8. Broken Music, Broken History: Sounds and Silence in Virginia Woolf's Between the Acts / Sanja Bahun9. "Shivering Fragments": Music, Art, and Dance In Virginia Woolf's Writing / Evelyn Haller10. Chiming the Hours: A Philip Glass Soundtrack / Roger Hillman and Deborah Crisp ContributorsIndex
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Virginia Woolf
Book SynopsisTrade Review"...Berman succeeds in showing the enormous relevance of contemporary approaches to Woolf studies, and of Woolf studies to global and transnational print culture, now and in her own time." - Mary Jean Corbett, Virginia Woolf Miscellany, Number 96, Fall 2019-Fall 2020Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 Part I Textual Encounters 11 1 The Lives of Houses: Woolf and Biography 13Alison Booth 2 The Short Fiction 27Laura Marcus 3 Silence and Cries: The Exotic Soundscape of The Voyage Out 41Emma Sutton 4 The Transitory Space of Night and Day 55Elizabeth Outka 5 Jacob’s Room: Occasions of War, Representations of History 67Vincent Sherry 6 Mrs. Dalloway: Of Clocks and Clouds 79Paul K. Saint-Amour 7 A Passage to the Lighthouse 95Maud Ellmann 8 Orlando’s Queer Animals 109Derek Ryan 9 Global Objects in The Waves 121Jane Garrity 10 The Years and Contradictory Time 137Anna Snaith 11 Between the Acts: Novels and Other Mass Media 151Marina MacKay 12 Flush: A Biography: Speaking, Reading, and Writing with the Companion Species 163Jane Goldman 13 Woolf’s Essays, Diaries, and Letters 177Anne E. Fernald 14 A Room of One’s Own in the World: The Pre-life and After-life of Shakespeare’s Sister 189Susan Stanford Friedman 15 Three Guineas and the Politics of Interruption 203Jessica Berman Part II Approaching Woolf 217 16 Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Class 219Jean Mills 17 Woolf and the Law 235Ravit Reichman 18 Woolf and the Natural Sciences 249Christina Alt 19 Digital Woolf 263Mark Hussey 20 Woolf and Crip Theory 277Madelyn Detloff 21 Woolf and the Visual 291Maggie Humm 22 Feminist Woolf 305Pamela L. Caughie 23 Ecocritical Woolf 319Bonnie Kime Scott 24 Woolf, War, Violence, History, and …Peace 333Sarah Cole 25 Queer Woolf 347Melanie Micir Part III Woolf in the World 359 26 Woolf, Bloomsbury, and Intimacy 361Jesse Wolfe 27 Woolf, the Hogarth Press, and Global Print Culture 377Claire Battershill and Helen Southworth 28 Woolf’s Urban Rhythms 397Tamar Katz 29 Woolf and Geography 411Andrew Thacker 30 Woolf’s Spatial Aesthetics and Postcolonial Critique 427Nels Pearson 31 Woolf in Translation 441Geneviève Brassard 32 Reading Woolf in India 453Supriya Chaudhuri 33 Woolf in Hispanic Countries: Buenos Aires and Madrid 467Laura Ma Lojo-Rodríguez Index 481
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Cambridge University Press Virginia Woolf and the Victorians
Book SynopsisCriticism of Woolf is often polarised into viewing her work as either fundamentally progressive or reactionary. In Virginia Woolf and the Victorians, first published in 2007, Steve Ellis tracks Woolf's response to the Victorian era through her fiction and other writings, arguing that Woolf can be seen as more 'Post-Victorian' than 'modernist'.Trade Review'There is … a fascinating and thought-provoking examination, recurring throughout the book, of light and shadow in her work.' Virginia Woolf Bulletin'… refreshingly unassuming, accessible style, Virginia Woolf and the Victorians is really a grand sweep of a book, a comprehensive and evolutionary look at the ambivalent response to the Victorian period contained in Woolf's fiction, essays, letters and diaries. … Ellis convincingly argues for a new and more balanced evaluation of the Woolfian retrospect as 'a complex relationship of difference and debt'.' Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen'… Virginia Woolf and the Victorians contains much of genuine interest to neo-Victorian researchers, as well as scholars of Woolf and Modernism.' Marie-Luise Kohlk, Swansea University'The conclusion of this study, which is both well referenced and carefully considered, is that Virginia Woolf's 'deep sense of the unchanging' overshadows her commitment to the modern.' Contemporary Review'… an extremely well thought out, provoking and highly scholarly study …' Cuadernos de Literatura Inglesa y Norteamericana'… helpful, suggestive, and important study … a keystone text in Virginia Woolf's lifelong fascination with her Victorian inheritance.' Woolf Studies AnnualTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Reclamation: Night and Day; 2. Synchronicity: Mrs Dalloway; 3. Integration: To the Lighthouse; 4. Disillusion: The Years; 5. Incoherence: the final works; Conclusion.
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Vintage Publishing Night And Day
Book SynopsisWITH INTRODUCTIONS BY ANGELICA GARNETT AND JO SHAPCOTTIn Night and Day, Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environment which will not allow her to express herself. Looking at questions raised by love and marriage, Night and Day paints an unforgettable picture of the London intelligensia before the First World War, with psychological insight, compassion and humour.Trade ReviewVirginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition * New York Times *Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s * Guardian *
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Oxford University Press Night and Day
Book SynopsisKatherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf''s own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary ancestors: in Katherine''s case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf''s, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break away from the demands of the previous generation without disowning it altogether. Katherine must decide whether or not she loves the iconoclastic Ralph Denham; Woolf seeks a way of experimenting with the novel for that still allows her to express her affection for the literature of the past. This is the most traditional of Woolf''s novels, yet even here we can see her beginning to break free; in this, her second novel, with its strange mixture of comedy and high seriousness, Woolf had already found her own characteristic voice. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade Review'Together these ten volumes make an attractive and reasonably priced (the volumes vary between £3.99 and £4.99) working edition of Virginia Woolf's best-known writing. One can only hope that their success will prompt World's Classics to add her other essays to the series in due course.' Elisabeth Jay, Westminster College, Oxford, Review of English Studies, Vol. XLV, No. 178, May '94
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Granta Books The Diary of Virginia Woolf: Volume 1: 1915-19
Book SynopsisWith an introduction by Virginia Nicholson Saturday 2 February 1918. The first walk we've had for ever so long. Damp, mild vaporous day. Funeral bells tolling as we went out, & marriage as we came in. The streets lined with people waiting their meat. Aeroplanes droning invisible. Our usual evening, alone happily, knee deep in papers. This diary begins in January 1915. Virginia Woolf was about to publish her first novel, The Voyage Out. By the end of 1919 she had published many essays and reviews, as well as a second novel, Night and Day. Her diary was the counterpoint to that public writing: here she could record details of daily life, think about friends and reading, writing and her state of mind. This diary offers a unique insight into the life and mind of one of Britain's most influential writers, and the circle she was part of which came to be known as Bloomsbury. This new Granta edition includes Woolf's 'Asheham Diary' for the first time.
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Alma Books Ltd Night and Day: Annotated Edition
Book SynopsisAs Katharine Hilbery, the granddaughter of a famous man of letters buried in Poets’ Corner, is helping her mother write the biography of their illustrious progenitor, she becomes engaged to William Rodney, a budding writer with an exaggerated opinion of his own poetical talent. Meanwhile, the suffragette Mary Datchet is in love with Ralph Denham, a lawyer and reviewer from a lowly background, who in turn feels more attracted to Katharine. As the stories and the romantic interests of these four young people evolve and intertwine, a picture emerges of a society still obsessed with class and hung up on the social mores of the Victorian era. By far the most accessible and traditional of all Virginia Woolf’s novels, Night and Day is a powerful evocation of a fast-changing world, and, though conventional in style, addresses many of the author’s recurring preoccupations, such as the role of women in society and the difficulties in reconciling love and marriage.
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd Night and Day Jacobs Room Wordsworth Classics
Book SynopsisContains Woolf's second and third novels, Night and Day and Jacob's Room.
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Vintage Publishing Jacobs Room
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia WTrade ReviewJacob, of whom people speak, of whom they think, but who is never shown. And yet that denial of presence on the part of the author makes of him one of the most living presences in world literature. It’s a remarkable achievement. * New Statesman *Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition * New York Times *
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Vintage Moments Of Being
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey. BetweenTrade ReviewOne might think, from the heaps of books, that the bones of Bloomsbury had been by now well and truly disinterred...But one would be wrong, for Moments of Being is a real delight -- Jan Marsh * Daily Telegraph *Of fascinating importance, because they are Virginia's only known autobiographical writings -- John Lehmann * Sunday Telegraph *The book must appeal to anyone interested in Virginia Woolf and her circle -- Derek Parker * The Times *Her manner of recall contains all those surprises and felicities of language we have come to expect when she writes, as it were, with her elbows on the table -- Richard Shone * Spectator *
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Vintage Publishing A Haunted House
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey. Between 1925 and 1931 VirginiaTrade ReviewHere is the precursor of the experiments which are to fill her future novels, where the writer will evaporate and condense solid objects over her literary Bunsen burner in solutions of time or light -- Helen Simpson, from her introductionWith Joyce and Eliot, Woolf has shaped a literary century -- Jeanette Winterson * The Times *They seem as perfect, and as functional for all their beauty, as spider webs. Indeed they were made for like purpose: to trap and dissect living morsels in the form of palpitating moments of time, instantaneous perceptions, brief visions of others -- Eudora Welty * New York Times Book Review) *Virginia Woolf stands as the chief figure of modernism in England and must be included with Joyce and Proust in the realisation of experimental achievements that have completely broken with tradition * New York Times *Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness" * Guardian *
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Vintage Publishing To the Lighthouse
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey. Between 1925 and 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic and highly experimental novel The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay. This intense creative productivity was often matched by periods of mental illness, from which she had suffered since her mother's death in 1895. On 28 March 1941, a few months before the publication of her final novel, Between the Acts, Virginia Woolf committed suicide.Trade ReviewWoolf’s groundbreaking novel is still one of the best available accounts of self-mythologising middle-class family life and its oppressive construction of male and female identity -- Rachel CuskI reread this book every once in a while, and every time I do I find it more capacious and startling. It’s so revolutionary and so exquisitely wrought that it keeps evolving on its own somehow, as if it’s alive -- Alison BechdelA classic for a reason. My mind was warped into a new shape by her prose and it will never be the same again. The metaphysics she presents in the book are enacted in a way that allowed me to begin to understand that corner of philosophy -- Greta GerwigTo The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time -- Margaret DrabbleIt is an elegy for lost times and family life * The Week *
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Vintage Publishing The Years
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey. Between 1925 anTrade ReviewInspired throughout - a brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion * Times Literary Supplement *Lovely through The Waves was, The Years goes far beyond and beyond it-expressing Woolf's purpose in the novel more richly than it has ever been done before * New York Times Book Review *
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Vintage Publishing Mrs Dalloway
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf was born in London in 1882, the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen, first editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. After his death in 1904 Virginia and her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, moved to Bloomsbury and became the centre of 'The Bloomsbury Group'. This informal collective of artists and writers which included Lytton Strachey and Roger Fry, exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture. In 1912 Virginia married Leonard Woolf, a writer and social reformer. Three years later, her first novel The Voyage Out was published, followed by Night and Day (1919) and Jacob's Room (1922). These first novels show the development of Virginia Woolf's distinctive and innovative narrative style. It was during this time that she and Leonard Woolf founded The Hogarth Press with the publication of the co-authored Two Stories in 1917, hand-printed in the dining room of their house in Surrey. Between 1925 anTrade ReviewMrs Dalloway contains some of the most beautiful, complex, incisive and idiosyncratic sentences ever written in English, and that alone would be reason enough to read it. It is one of the most moving, revolutionary artworks of the twentieth centuryA beautiful piece of writing * Guardian *I think To The Lighthouse and Mrs Dalloway are sheer magic * Daily Express *Virginia Woolf was one of the great innovators of that decade of literary Modernism, the 1920s. Novels such as Mrs Dalloway and To the Lighthouse showed how experimental writing could reshape our sense of ordinary life. Taking unremarkable materials - preparations for a genteel party, a day on a bourgeois family holiday - they trace the flow of associations and ideas that we call "consciousness". * Guardian *A beautiful ode to dignity, memory and survival * Sunday Times *
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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolfs Novels and the Literary Past
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to explore Virginia Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past and its profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.Trade ReviewJane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. -- Nancy L Paxton Virginia Woolf Miscellany ...carefully researched and clearly written. Woolf Studies Annual Jane de Gay presents an elegantly written, chronological survey of Woolf's engagement with the literary past. ...carefully researched and clearly written.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Woman Reader to Woman Writer: The Voyage Out; Chapter 2. Tradition and Exploration in Night and Day; Chapter 3. Literature and Survival: Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway; Chapter 4. To the Lighthouse and the Ghost of Leslie Stephen; Chapter 5. Rewriting Literary History in Orlando; Chapter 6. 'Lives Together': Literary and Spiritual Autobiographies; in The Waves; Chapter 7. Bringing the Literary Past to Life in Between the Acts; Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index.
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Edinburgh University Press Virginia Woolfs Novels and the Literary Past
Book SynopsisThis book argues that Woolf's preoccupation with the literary past had a profound impact on the content and structure of her novels.Trade ReviewA number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past! The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender politics of Modernism. An important intervention at a time in which there is particular interest in Woolf's relationship to the past. -- Professor Laura Marcus, University of Sussex Essential and intellectually provocative reading for Woolf scholars and for common readers alike. -- Vara Neverow, President of the International Virginia Woolf Society A number of interesting and powerful themes emerge in this study of Virginia Woolf's relation to the literary past! The strong account of Woolf's relation to tradition in Virginia Woolf's Novels and the Literary Past will surely facilitate further study of the gender politics of Modernism. An important intervention at a time in which there is particular interest in Woolf's relationship to the past. Essential and intellectually provocative reading for Woolf scholars and for common readers alike.Table of ContentsContents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Woman Reader to Woman Writer: The Voyage Out; Chapter 2. Tradition and Exploration in Night and Day; Chapter 3. Literature and Survival: Jacob's Room and Mrs Dalloway; Chapter 4. To the Lighthouse and the Ghost of Leslie Stephen; Chapter 5. Rewriting Literary History in Orlando; Chapter 6. 'Lives Together': Literary and Spiritual Autobiographies; in The Waves; Chapter 7. Bringing the Literary Past to Life in Between the Acts; Conclusion; Select Bibliography.
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Bodleian Library Lighted Window, The: Evening Walks Remembered
Book SynopsisHomecoming, haunting, nostalgia, desire: these are some of the themes evoked by the beguiling motif of the lighted window in literature and art. In this innovative combination of place-writing, memoir and cultural study, Peter Davidson takes us on atmospheric walks through nocturnal cities in Britain, Europe and North America, and revisits the field paths of rural England. Surveying a wide range of material, the book extends, chronologically, from early romantic painting to contemporary fiction, and geographically, from the Low Countries to Japan. It features familiar lighted windows in English literature (in the works of poets such as Thomas Hardy and Matthew Arnold and in the novels of Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle and Kenneth Grahame) and examines the painted nocturnes of James Whistler, John Atkinson Grimshaw and the ruralist Samuel Palmer. It also considers Japanese prints of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; German romanticism in painting, poetry and music; Proust and the painters of the French belle époque; René Magritte’s 'L’Empire des Lumières'; and North American painters such as Edward Hopper and Linden Frederick. By interpreting the interactions of art, literature and geography around this evocative motif, Peter Davidson shows how it has inspired an extraordinary variety of moods and ideas, from the romantic period to the present day.Trade Review'This is an art-history and English-literature lesson rolled into one, best enjoyed in the glow of your own bedside lamp, ideally with a storm raging outside.' * Country Life *'Davidson creates his own idiosyncratic, hybrid genre in which cultural history, nature writing and place writing are channelled through personal experience. … [he is] an excellent guide not just along pavements and footpaths but around paintings too, teasing out shades of meaning. ... Imagination and memory, the book suggests, create their own lighted windows in the darkest of journeys and have the power to change the world around us.' * TLS *'Erudite, companionable, and hypnotically satisfying.' * Financial Times *'While it's beautiful to peruse, this is no coffee-table book but a beguiling work of academia and an excellent festive offering for anyone who has walked past a lighted window on a dark evening and wondered about the goings-on inside.' * The Field *'There isn’t a Faber Book of Windows at Night, but Davidson is certainly the man for the job and The Lighted Window is a sort of memoir of the thought processes that would have produced one.' * The Literary Review *'A beautiful and timely book.' * Radio 4 Open Book *'A must-read if you've ever been captivated by a glimpse into another life on your evening stroll.' * OX Magazine *'Will evoke fond memories for any alumnus … the book will banish away winter nights while evoking the anticipation of spring and summer.' * QUAD Magazine *'A connoisseur of the crepuscular, the in-between zone dividing night and day, and all its electrifying implications. ... Winter cities, London nocturnes, northern townscapes … These generate aesthetically significant representations within the boundaries of Peter Davidson’s pungent and particular theme. He brings us some unexpected and enlightening assessments and observations, as his book proceeds on its scholarly and seductive way.' * Dublin Review of Books *'In this gorgeous book, Peter Davidson heads out into Oxford at nightfall, to consider cities in winter and rural summer twilights that embrace the warmth of the day. ... Enchanting.' * The Simple Things *Table of ContentsContents 1. Introduction 2. Winter Cities 3. London Nocturne 4. Windows in the Landscape 5. Northern Townscapes; Western Suburbs 6. Summer Night Illuminations Notes Further Reading Acknowledgments Picture Credits Index
£21.25
Indiana University Press The Gender of Modernism A Critical Anthology
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Djuna BarnesMotherTo the DogsThe Confessions of Helen Westley2. Willa CatherThe Novel Demeuble3. Nancy CunardBlack Man and White LadyshipHarlem ReviewedThe American Moron and the American of Sense—Letters on the NegroLetter to Ezra Pound4. H.D.Notes on Thought and VisionThe Borderline PamphletMarianne MooreResponsibilitiesJoan of ArcLetters to Amy LowellLetters to Marianne Moore 5. T.S. EliotIntroduction to Djuna Barnes's NightwoodReview of Marianne Moore's Poems and MarriageIntroduction to Marianne Moore's Selected Poems6. Jessie Redmon FausetAs to BooksReview of Countee Cullen and Langston HughesForeword to The Chinaberry TreeFrom the Bun7. Zora Neale HurstonCharacteristics of Negro ExpressionSpirituals and Neo-SpiritualsBig Sweet (From Dust Tracks on a Road)Stories of Conflict8. James JoyceStephen's Interview with His Mother (From Stephen Hero)Letter to Nora Barnacle9. Nella LarsenLetter on Walter White's FlightLetter to Carl Van Vechten10. D.H. LawrenceMatriarchyCocksure Women and Hensure Men11. Mina LoyGertrude SteinAphorisms on FuturismThe Ineffectual MarriageJoyce's UlyssesBrancusi's Golden Bird12. Rose MacaulayAfternoon Out (From Non-Combatants and Others)Evening in Church (From Non-Combatants and Others)Alix, Nicholas, and West (From Non-Combatants and Others)Second Period: Smash (From Told by an Idiot)Following the FashionAlbum13. Hugh MacDiarmidFollowing Rebecca West in Edinburgh: A Monologue in the Vernacular (With Glossary)14. Katherine MansfieldFrom Early JournalFrom Letters to John Middleton MurryThe Flowering of the Self (From Journal, 1920)On Vaihinger (From Journal, 1921)Three Women Novelists (From Review of Dorothy Richardson's The Tunnel)Dragonflies (From Review of Richardson's Interim)The New Infancy (Review of May Sinclair's Mary Olivier)A Ship Comes into the Harbour (Review of Virginia Woolf's Night and Day)A Novel without a Crisis (From Review of Vita Sackville-West's Heritage)15. Charlotte MewAbsenceThe Cenotaph16. Marianne MooreFrom the CorrespondenceIf I Were Sixteen TodayCharlotte BronteWell Moused, LionArchaically NewHymen17. Ezra PoundLetter to Marianne Moore, 16 December 1918Doggerel Section of Letter to Marianne Moore"Others" (with Margaret Anderson's Annotation)Suffragettes18. Jean RhysVienneVoyage in the Dark: Part IV (Original Version)Ghost Writing19. Dorothy RichardsonFrom "In the Crank's Library": In the Days of the CometThe Reality of FeminismTalent and GeniusWomen and the FutureAbout PunctuationWomen in the ArtsContinuous Performance: The Film Gone MaleAdventure for ReadersForeword to PilgrimageNovels20. May SinclairThe Novels of Dorothy Richardson"Prufrock: And Other Observations": A CriticismThe Poems of "H.D."The Reputation of Ezra Pound"The Future of the Novel": An Interview21. Gertrude SteinHow Writing is WrittenWhat Are Master-pieces and Why Are There So Few of ThemA Transatlantic Interview 1946AmericansWhite WinesPlayA Description of the Fifteenth of November: A Portrait of T.S. EliotSitwell Edith SitwellTo Kitty or Kate Buss22. Sylvia Townsend WarnerWomen as WritersCottage MantleshelfBluebeard's Daughter23. Rebecca WestTrees of GoldThe "Freewomen"Spinster to the RescueThe World's Worst FailureReply to D.H. Lawrence's "Good Boy Husbands"What Is Mr. T.S. Eliot's Authority as a Critic?High Fountain of Genius24. Antonia WhiteThe House of Clouds25. Anna WickhamSong of the Low-Caste WifeDivorceThe Angry Woman26. Virginia WoolfModern Fiction From "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" Modern Novels (Joyce)Cultural Critique The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn From "Bryon and Mr. Briggs" Notes for Reading at Random Anon The ReaderSelected BibliographyContributorsIndex
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Virginia Woolf and the Theater
Book SynopsisAlthough the Woolf and Bloomsbury "industry" has examined Woolf’s work from virtually every angle, there has never been any full consideration of either how she was influenced by drama and theater or how she has influenced women playwrights. Virginia Woolf and the Theater demonstrates that drama, theater and performance formed a continuous subtext in Virginia Woolf's art and in her life, from the plays she attended as a child, to the roles she enacted as a member of the Play Reading Society, to the Bloomsbury theatrical evenings, to her own studio play Freshwater, to her many essays discussing drama and theater, to her final novel, Between the Acts, which fulfills her desire to create a work that combines verse, prose and drama. Drawing on published and unpublished diaries, letters, essays, and other documents, this book allows readers to witness Victorian, Edwardian, and mid-twentieth century British theater through Woolf’s eyes, from Christmas pantomimes, music hall skits, pageants, extravaganzas, and bowdlerized adaptations of Shakespeare that she saw as a child, through the plays of Ibsen, Chekhov and Shaw, and women’s groups such as The Pioneer Players, to the experimental plays of T.S. Eliot, Isherwood, Auden, and Arthur Schnitzler. By the 1930s Woolf formulated a theory of audience response, experimenting in her diaries, letters and even in her essays with narrative-free dialogue such as that employed on the stage. Although her attendance at the theater and her experiments with stage dialogue show up as early as Night and Day and The Voyage Out, her later novels become increasingly performative. Orlando, The Years, as well as parts of The Waves show the influence of her growing appreciation of stage dialogue and audience reception. The book concludes with an examination of many recent stage adaptations of Woolf’s work, arguing that productions relying on the conventions of Realism or Naturalism often fail to please either theater aficionados or avid readers of Woolf, while productions employing radio drama, multi-media performance art, dance, and even opera have proved to be well-suited to Woolf’s own experimental narrative techniques. While continuing to nourish the iconic “common reader” and to inspire generations of prose writers, Woolf’s work has also inspired contemporary women playwrights such as Caryl Churchill, Bryony Lavery, Pam Gems, Michelene Wandor, and Maureen Duffy.Trade ReviewPutzel (English, Penn State) has written a meticulously researched and necessary study of Woolf's relationship to theater. Woolf attended pantomimes as an audience member early on, and she remained an active theatergoer through adulthood, attending a variety of plays (noted in her calendar and listed here in an invaluable appendix). As a reviewer, Woolf wrote extensively on theater, particularly the tension between the reader's imagined text and the performed text. As a writer, she experimented with performativity, theatricality, and narrative, and she wrote a play (Freshwater, first performed in 1923, based on her great-aunt Julia Cameron). Putzel toggles between biography, theater history, and analysis, offering chapters on Woolf's passion for opera, Bloomsbury theatricals (including the 1907-09 Play Reading Society), women playwrights and actors and Woolf's ambivalence toward their work, and adaptations of Woolf's work for the stage. All of this insightful scholarship is founded on research into unpublished archival material and situated in a useful history of Victorian and Edwardian theater. Putzel contributed "Virginia Woolf and Theatre" to The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, ed. by Maggie Humm (CH, May'11, 48-4938), and the present book provides a delightful expansion of that earlier essay. Summing Up: Highly recommended. * CHOICE *Steven D. Putzel’s Virginia Woolf and the Theater offers a sustained reading of Woolf’s relationship to the theatre and drama. What Putzel describes as an ‘overview’ of his work on Woolf and the theatre appeared in 2010 in The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts. However, Putzel here offers a much more exhaustive, if not as he points out ‘definitive’, exploration of both Woolf’s personal encounters with and reactions to particular plays and playwrights, and her integration of these experiences into her critical and fictional writings. Putzel has done an enormous amount of research. * The Year's Work In English Studies *Table of ContentsTable of Contents: List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Entertainment: From Music Hall to Opera Chapter Two: Bloomsbury Actors, Audience, and Playwrights Chapter Three: Pioneers and their Uncles Chapter Four: Theatrical Theory and Narrative Practice Chapter Five: Stage Adaptations of Woolf’s Work Conclusion: irginia Woolf’s Legacy to Women Playwrights Works Cited Appendix: Chart of Plays Woolf Attended About the Author
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National Portrait Gallery Publications Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision
Book SynopsisVirginia Woolf’s many novels, notably Night and Day (1919), Jacob’s Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterisation. The third child of Leslie and Julia Stephen, and sister of Vanessa (later Bell), Woolf was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group: that union of friends who revolutionised British culture with their innovative approach to art, design and society in the early years of the twentieth century. Portraiture figured greatly in Woolf’s life. Portraits by G.F. Watts and photographs made by her aunt, Julia Margaret Cameron, furnished rooms in which she lived. Written portraits were produced in the family home; her father, Leslie Stephen, published short biographies of Samuel Johnson, Pope, Swift, George Eliot and Thomas Hobbes, while editing the first twenty-six volumes of the Dictionary of National Biography. Throughout her life, Woolf, a sharp observer and a brilliant wordsmith, composed memorable vignettes-in-words of people she knew or encountered, and was herself portrayed by artists and photographers on many occasions. Illustrated with over a hundred works from public and private collections, documentary photographs and extracts from her writings, this book catches Woolf’s appearance and that of the world around her. It also points to her pursuit of the hidden, the fleeting and the obscure, in her desire to understand better the place and moment in time and in history in which she lived. In charting some of the milestones in Woolf’s life, author Frances Spalding acknowledges the seen and unseen aspects of her subject; the outer and the inner, the recognisable and the concealed.
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BBC Worldwide Ltd The Virginia Woolf BBC Radio Drama Collection:
Book SynopsisThe collected BBC radio adaptations of Virginia Woolf’s pioneering modernist novelsThe Voyage OutA sea voyage to South America turns into a journey of self-discovery for naïve Rachel Vinrace.Night and DayIn pre-First World War London, aristocrat Katharine Hilbery and suffragette Mary Datchet have their assumptions about love challenged.Mrs DallowayVirginia Woolf’s masterpiece charts one day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, as she prepares to host an important party.To the LighthouseCentring around a summer home on Skye, Virginia Woolf’s landmark tale follows the Ramsay family and their guests before and after World War I.OrlandoThe adventures of time-travelling, gender-swapping poet Orlando, who is born male in Elizabethan England and dies female over 300 years later.The WavesIn this radical ‘play-poem’, six characters look back on their childhood and first forays into adulthood, and reflect on the loss of their friend Percival.Between the ActsAn eccentric artist devises a pageant celebrating English history – but it is 1939, and the shadow of war hangs over England’s present.Among the stars of these seven poignant, penetrating dramatisations are Bertie Carvel, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Dervla Kirwan, John Lynch, Geraldine James, Anna Massey and Don Warrington.
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Restless Books Night And Day
Book SynopsisThe 100th Anniversary Edition of Virginia Woolf's timely, overlooked second novela remarkable story of two women navigating the possibilities opened up by the struggle for women's suffrageintroduced for Restless Classics by bestselling author of Fates and Furies Lauren Groff and illustrated by graphic artist Kristen Radtke.Since its publication in 1919, Virginia Woolf's second novel has been largely dismissed as traditionalbut reading the book more closely today shows us just how prescient and unconventional it was. On its surface, Night and Day plays with the tropes of Shakespearean comedy: We follow the romantic endeavors of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet, as love is confessed and rebuffed, partners switched, weddings planned and cancelled, until we finally arrive at two engagements. But these dramas play out against the first steps of the women's suffrage movement, as women's roles in society fitfully started to shift away from charm, subservience, and self-sacrifice toward equal partnership. Ultimately, Woolf's novel is a subversive challenge to the male-writer establishment of the Edwardian ageHenry James, E.M. Forster, their forebears and successorsthat undercuts the unequal gender dialectic on which their plots depend.The Virginia Woolf of Night and Day is every bit as brilliant, funny, sharp, and imbued with a deep love of language as in her celebrated later works Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. What makes Night and Day so remarkable is its devotion to real life. As bestselling author of Fates and Furies Lauren Groff writes in her introduction, Virginia Woolf, in pushing outward in this book toward an articulation of a new and better kind of marriage, doesn't stop for a moment to try to seduce the reader into loving her charactersshe is too fixated on breaking new ground and exploring her ideas.This edition, beautifully illustrated by Kristen Radtke, celebrates the 100th anniversary of this key work not only of the Woolf canon, but also of the vital history of feminist literature.
£16.99
Culturea Night and Day
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