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A Room of One's Own

Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf 1. Aufl.

von: Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw, Stuart N. Clarke
84,99 €
Verlag:	Wiley-Blackwell
Format:	PDF
Veröffentl.:	10.12.2014
ISBN/EAN:	9781118299197
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	192

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Titelbeschreibung

A Room of One's Own, is one of VirginiaWoolf's most influential works and is widely recognizedfor its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement.This timely and important new edition adopts the complete text ofthe first British edition published in 1929.
* Features a comprehensive introduction detailing the process andcomposition of Woolf's original essay and the evolution ofits subsequent publication history
* The first comprehensive and authoritative edition of thisfoundational text of the feminist movement, and one of the mostsignificant works in Woolf's own canon
* The only volume based on comparisons of each of the Britisheditions of A Room of One's Own that appeared inWoolf's lifetime
* Incorporates extensive explanatory notes which reveal theessay's broader political, historical, social, and literarycontexts
* Includes a comprehensive appendix highlighting variationsbetween each of the British editions that appeared in Woolf'slifetime and the first American edition; alterations fromWoolf's uncorrected proofs; and current editorial emendationsincorporated in this new edition

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements viii

Abbreviations ix

Frontispiece: the dust-jacket for the first English editionxi

Introduction xii

A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN 1

Notes 83

Appendix: Textual Variants and Emendations 125

Autorenportrait

David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature atOxford University and a Fellow of Worcester College. His editedworks include The Hidden Huxley (1994), A ConciseCompanion to Modernism (2003), The Cambridge Companion toE.M. Forster (2007), A Companion to Modernist Literature andCulture (with Kevin J.H. Dettmar, 2006), Prudes on theProwl: Fiction and Obscenity in England, 1850 to the PresentDay (with Rachel Potter, 2013), and Woolf's MrsDalloway (2000), To the Lighthouse (2006), and TheWaves (2014), as well as many other Modernist texts. He hasalso edited the Shakespeare Head edition of The Years (withIan Blyth, 2012) and is Co-Executive Editor of the 42-volume TheComplete Works of Evelyn Waugh (with Martin Stannard,forthcoming).

Stuart N. Clarke has transcribed and edited VirginiaWoolf's Orlando: The Original Holograph Draft (1993);was co-compiler with B. J. Kirkpatrick of the 4th edition of ABibliography of Virginia Woolf (1997); and editedTranslations from the Russian (2006), by Virginia Woolf andS. S. Koteliansky, and Volumes 5 and 6 of the complete Essays ofVirginia Woolf (2009 and 2011). He is a founding member of theVirginia Woolf Society of Great Britain and has edited its journal,the Virginia Woolf Bulletin, since its inception in1999.