A01=Virginia Woolf
Author_Virginia Woolf
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393422597
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 130 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 25 Oct 2023
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This Norton Critical Edition includes:
• The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans.
• A 1924-28 chronology of To the Lighthouse’s composition, revision, publication and reception.
• A rich selection of background materials, thematically organized for ease of reference. Topics include: “Autobiographical Writings,” “Family and Other Contemporary Contexts and Sources,” “Essays by Virginia Woolf,” and “Literary Sources.”
• Nine critical assessments of To the Lighthouse, from publication to the present day, by Arthur Sydney McDowell, Louis Kronenberger, Mary Colum, Francis Brown, Erich Auerbach, Adrienne Rich, Rachel Bowlby, Pamela L. Caughie, and Urmila Seshagiri.
• A chronology and a selected bibliography
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was the world-renowned author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, among other works. Margaret Homans is a professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. She is the author of Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing; Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837?1876; Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson; The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility; and Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays.
