The Novel (LIT 344): Mrs. Dalloway

Mrs. Dalloway by Dorothy Dodge Robbins (Editor); Salem Press Editors Original essays present an overview of Mrs. Dalloway, including information about the work's origins and composition, and analyze the world events and social conditions that provide context for the work. There are also discussions of Woolf's efforts to create a new form of the novel appropriate for a new age.

Unlived Lives in English Literature by Lena Linne “If I had acted differently, then...” – Most human beings indulge in counterfactual thought experiments at one point or another. For the fictional characters analysed in this book, they are a central preoccupation. The characters obsessively review their past, looking at a road they did not take, pondering on a life they did not live. Drawing on narratology, theories of counterfactuality and the study of motifs, the book suggests a typology of unlived lives, which is based on more than fifty works from the nineteenth century to the present. In addition, the book offers seven readings. These focus on texts in which the motif of the unlived life features in an especially characteristic or challenging manner: Henry James's “The Diary of a Man of Fifty” and “The Jolly Corner,” Virginia Woolf's ‘Mrs Dalloway', Vita Sackville-West's ‘All Passion Spent', Samuel Beckett's ‘Krapp's Last Tape'and Alice Munro's “Carried Away” and “Dolly.”

Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway by Molly Hoff In this companion book to Mrs. Dalloway, Molly Hoff illuminates much that is hidden in Virginia Woolf's celebrated and often misunderstood novel. Mrs. Dalloway is brimming with references, both overt and subtle, to other works of literature, historical events, and goings-on in Woolf's ownlife. Invisible Presences serves, as Hoff states in her preface, "as a kind of reference manual for commentary on individual passages that may be of interest." Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway: Invisible Presences will doubtless provide a wealth of material to enrich lesson plans and syllabi for thosewho, as Hoff puts it, "profess literature." It however has its own beginning, middle, and end to guide any reader. Thus it serves as two books at once. It is hoped it will lead to a deep understanding of Mrs. Dalloway and Woolf's method in general.

The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf by Susan Sellers (Editor) Virginia Woolf's writing has generated passion and controversy for the best part of a century. Her novels - challenging, moving, and always deeply intelligent - remain as popular with readers as they are with students and academics. The highly successful Cambridge Companion has been fully revised to take account of new departures in scholarship since it first appeared. The second edition includes new chapters on race, nation and empire, sexuality, aesthetics, visual culture and the public sphere. The remaining chapters, as well as the guide to further reading, have all been fully updated. The Cambridge Companion to Virginia Woolf remains the first port of call for students new to Woolf's work, with its informative, readable style, chronology and authoritative information about secondary sources.

The Cambridge Introduction to Virginia Woolf by Jane Goldman For students of modern literature, the works of Virginia Woolf are essential reading. In her novels, short stories, essays, polemical pamphlets and in her private letters she explored, questioned and refashioned everything about modern life: cinema, sexuality, shopping, education, feminism, politics and war. Her elegant and startlingly original sentences became a model of modernist prose. This is a clear and informative introduction to Woolf's life, works, and cultural and critical contexts, explaining the importance of the Bloomsbury group in the development of her work. It covers the major works in detail, including To the Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway, The Waves and the key short stories. As well as providing students with the essential information needed to study Woolf, Jane Goldman suggests further reading to allow students to find their way through the most important critical works. All students of Woolf will find this a useful and illuminating overview of the field.

How to Analyze the Works of Virginia Woolf by Rosa Boshier

Reading Virginia Woolf by Julia Briggs The pleasure and excitement of exploring Virginia Woolf's writings is at the heart of this book by a highly respected Woolf critic and biographer. 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 - from a series of highly imaginative and unexpected angles. Individual essays analyse Woolf's neglected second novel, Night and Day and investigate her links with other writers (Byron, Shakespeare), her ambivalent attitudes to ‘Englishness'and to censorship, her fascination with transitional places and moments, with the flow of time (and its relative nature), her concern with visions and revision and with printing and the writing process as a whole. We watch Woolf as she typesets an extraordinarily complex high modernist poem (Hope Mirrlees's'Paris'), and as she revises her novels so that their structures become formally - and even numerologically - significant. A final essay examines the differences between Woolf's texts as they were first published in England and America, and the further changes she occasionally made after publication, changes that her editors have been slow to acknowledge. Julia Briggs brings to these discussions an extensive knowledge of Woolf both as a scholar and as an editor. She records her findings and observations in a lively, graceful and approachable style that will entice readers to delve further and more meaningfully into Woolf's work. Features• Addresses a wide range of familiar and less familiar texts, including Woolf's short stories.• Opens up difficult texts in an inviting style.• Covers aspects of Woolf's work that have been consistently neglected or have never been considered before.

Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer by Katherine Dalsimer

Virginia Woolf: The Inward Voyage by Harvena Richter Virginia Woolf's discovery as a novelist how to convey the inner reality of experience is set forth for the first time by Harvena Richter. A voyage "inward" to Mrs. Woolf's subjective methods, Miss Richter's study furthers our understanding of her novels, especially The Waves and The Years, and reveals a new, vital, completely contemporary Virginia Woolf.Originally published in 1970.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905."

Virginia Woolf: Twenty-first Century Approaches by Gill Lowe (Editor); Kathryn Simpson (Editor); Vara Neverow (Editor); Jeanne Dubino (Editor)

Virginia Woolf and the Nineteenth-Century Domestic Novel by Emily Blair

Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Style by Pamela J. Transue

Virginia Woolf in Context by Bryony Randall (Editor); Jane Goldman (Editor) "As a paradigmatic modernist author, Virginia Woolf is celebrated for the ways her fiction illuminates modern and contemporary life. Woolf scholars have long debated how context - whether historical, cultural, or theoretical - is to be understood in relation to her work, and how her work produces new insights into context. Drawing on an international field of leading and emergent specialists, this collection provides an authoritative resource for contemporary Woolf scholarship that explores the distinct and overlapping dimensions of her writings. Rather than survey existing scholarship, these essays extend Woolf studies in new directions by examining how the author is contextualised today. The collection also highlights connections between Woolf and key cultural, political, and historical issues of the twentieth century such as avant-gardism in music and art, developments in journalism and the publishing industry, political struggles over race, gender, and class, and the bearings of colonialism, empire, and war. A valuable critical touchstone for researchers, the volume will also complement graduate scholarship in English literature, literary theory, context studies, and modernism and postcolonial studies"-- Provided by publisher.