Jacob's Room

Jacob's Room
Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw, Stuart N Clarke
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1 Sep 2022 UK
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9781784877958
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Jacob' s Room, Virginia Woolf' s third novel, is short compared with its predecessor Night and Day. She said herself that she learnt what to leave out by putting it all in. Jacob' s Room may be read as the simple story of a young man' s life from childhood until his death in the First World War, but it is much more than that: it subtly indicts a society that instils obedience and celebrates militarism. Consequently, Jacob' s death seems random yet inevitable. Extensive explanatory notes clarify the myriad passing allusions, which should lead to a reassessment of Jacob' s Room as one of the great modernist masterpieces, taking its place with Ulysses and The Waste Land in the iconic year of 1922. The substantial introduction includes a detailed account of the novel' s composition, publication, and early critical reception, together with chronologies of composition and of Woolf' s life.
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Stuart N. Clarke has transcribed and edited Virginia Woolf' s Orlando: The Original Holograph Draft (1993), was co-compiler with B. J. Kirkpatrick of the 4th edition of A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf (1997), and edited Translations from the Russian (2006), by Virginia Woolf and S. S. Koteliansky, and Volumes 5 and 6 of the complete Essays of Virginia Woolf (2009 and 2011). With David Bradshaw, he edited A Room of One' s Own (Wiley Blackwell, 2015). He is a founding member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and has edited its journal, the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, since its inception in 1999. David Bradshaw (1955-2016) was Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. He was editor of Virginia Woolf' s Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Selected Essays and The Waves for the Oxford World' s Classics Series, and of The Years (with Ian Blyth) and A Room of One' s Own (with Stuart N. Clarke) for the Shakespeare Head Press. David also edited and contributed to The Cambridge Companion to E. M. Forster, A Companion to Modernist Literature and Culture, and Prudes on the Prowl: Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850 to the Present Day. He edited Aldous Huxley' s Brave New World for Vintage Classics and was a founder of the Evelyn Waugh project to publish the first Complete Works of Waugh' s writing.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781784877958
Published: 1 Sep 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 165g
Pages: 208

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