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A Room of One's Own (Hardcover)
Virginia Woolf; Edited by David Bradshaw, Stuart N. Clarke
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A Room of One s Own, is one of Virginia Woolf s most influential
works and is widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution
to the women s movement. This timely and important new edition
adopts the complete text of the first British edition published in
1929. * Features a comprehensive introduction detailing the process
and composition of Woolf s original essay and the evolution of its
subsequent publication history * The first comprehensive and
authoritative edition of this foundational text of the feminist
movement, and one of the most significant works in Woolf s own
canon * The only volume based on comparisons of each of the British
editions of A Room of One s Own that appeared in Woolf s lifetime *
Incorporates extensive explanatory notes which reveal the essay s
broader political, historical, social, and literary contexts *
Includes a comprehensive appendix highlighting variations between
each of the British editions that appeared in Woolf s lifetime and
the first American edition; alterations from Woolf s uncorrected
proofs; and current editorial emendations incorporated in this new
edition
With this sixth volume The Hogarth Press completes a major literary
undertaking - the publication of the complete essays of Virginia
Woolf. In this, the last decade of her life, Woolf wrote
distinguished literary essays on Turgenev, Goldsmith, Congreve,
Gibbon and Horace Walpole. In addition, there are a number of more
political essays, such as 'Why Art To-Day Follows Politics', 'Women
Must Weep' (a cut-down version of Three Guineas and never before
reprinted), 'Royalty' (rejected by Picture Post in 1939 as 'an
attack on the Royal family, and on the institution of kingship in
this country'), 'Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid', and even
'America, which I Have Never Seen...' ('['Americans are] the most
interesting people in the world - they face the future, not the
past'). In 'The Leaning Tower' (1940), Virginia Woolf faced the
future and looked forward to a more democratic post-war age: 'will
there be no more towers and no more classes and shall we stand,
without hedges between us, on the common ground?' Woolf stimulates
her readers to think for themselves, so she 'never forges
manifestos, issues guidelines, or gives instructions that must be
followed to the letter' (Maria DiBattista). In providing an
authoritative text, introduction and annotations to Virginia
Woolf's essays, Stuart N. Clarke has prepared a common ground - for
students, common readers and scholars alike - so that all can come
to Woolf without specialised knowledge.
This acclaimed bibliography of Virginia Woolf, prepared with the
late Leonard Woolf's agreement and co-operation, has been greatly
expanded since its first publication in 1957 and the revised
editions of 1967 and 1980. The need for a fourth revised edition is
the result both of the explosion of new editions of existing books,
and of the appearance of much previously unpublished material.
Section A, Books and Pamphlets, has increased from 54 to 79 items;
Section AA, Composite Editions, is a new section with nine items;
Section C, Contributions to Periodicals, has increased by 78 items,
including 56 unsigned reviews; Section D, Translations, has
increased from 207 to 557 items; Section F, Letters, is new in that
it now itemizes only uncollected letters. Studies of variant
editions and texts are noted in the entry for the work concerned.
The bibliography is an essential tool for all interested in Woolf.
Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a
few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the
last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of
articles, of which this selection offers a fascinating glimpse,
which display the gifts of a dazzling social and literary critic as
well as the development of a brilliant and influential novelist.
From reflections on class and education, to slyly ironic reviews,
musings on the lives of great men and 'Street Haunting', a
superlative tour of her London neighbourhood, this is Woolf at her
most thoughtful and entertaining.
He left everything just as it was.... Did he think he would come
back?"
Jacob's Room" was the first book in Virginia Woolf's unique,
experimental style, making it an important text of early Modernism.
Ostensibly, the story is about the life of Jacob Flanders, the
title character, who is evoked purely by other characters'
perceptions and memories of him. Jacob remains an absence
throughout. Elegiac in tone, the work beautifully memorializes the
longing and pain of a generation that lost so many of its most
promising young men to World War I.
Upon it's release E.M. Forster remarked, "amazing.... a new type of
fiction has swum into view."
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella
is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless,
it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest
writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House
celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles
that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first
time.
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