Mrs. Dalloway : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / Virginia Woolf ; edited by Anne E. Fernald.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941, author.

Contributor:

Fernald, Anne E., editor.

Series:

Norton critical edition

A Norton critical edition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway.

Woolf, Virginia.

Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf, Virginia).

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations).

Middle-aged women--Fiction.

Middle-aged women.

Married women--Fiction.

Married women.

Suicide victims--Fiction.

Suicide victims.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xxx, 365 pages : map ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., [2021]

Summary:

"This Norton Critical Edition of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is based on the first American edition from 1925. The novel follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a married, high society woman in London as she prepares to host a party. Set in the aftermath of World War I, the novel explores the world's social and psychological consequences, juxtaposing Dalloway's ordinary day against that of Septimus Warren Smith, a shell-shocked war veteran. The "Contexts" in this Critical Edition provide readers with a varied selection of Woolf's writings related to the novel's composition, as well as literary and historical materials by other writers that influenced Woolf. "Criticism" includes contemporaneous reviews from the 1920s, as well as more recent critical essays on themes including ethics, feminism, and modernism. A chronology and selected bibliography are also included"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES

Early Writings

Hyde Park Gate News

Cristmas Number, vol. i, No. 51 (December 1891)

[Mrs Leslie Stephen], vol. ii, No. 25 (July 4, 1892)

[The Dog], vol. ii, No. 43 (November 7, 1892)

Early Diary Entry

Giggleswick 1906

Diary

February 1, 1915 [A violent explosion]

December 14, 1917 [A quiet man]

April 9, 1918 [My father was a German]

May 1, 1918 [The Equator]

May 28, 1918 [An enormous pocket knife]

June 8, 1920 [A complete case of servant's hysteria]

September 15, 1920 [Especially the satire of the Dalloways]

October 25, 1920 [A little strip of pavement over an abyss]

April 18, 1921 [Lunching with a cabinet minister]

June 2, 1921 [Actually under this roof]

October 4, 1922 [I like reading my own writing]

October 8, 1922 [Kitty Maxse's death]

June 19, 1923 [Feeling things deeply]

August 6, 1923 [Hollyhocks, decapitated, swam in a bowl]

April 5, 1924 [Angelica's accident]

November 18, 1924 [The mad chapters of Mrs D]

January 6, 1925 [Proofs will come next week]

April 19, 1925 [Mrs Dalloway is a success]

June 18, 1925 [Lytton does not like Mrs Dalloway]

Letters

To Emma Vaughan, April 1899 [How I do love London]

To Thoby Stephen, November 5, 1901 [No true Shakespearian]

To Madge Vaughan, early January 1905 [Teaching in the Waterloo Road]

To Violet Dickinson, mid-February 1905 [Dr Savage's dinner]

To Violet Dickinson, October 1, 1907 [The poet Keats]

To Vanessa Bell, August 20, 1908 [I have no wish to perish]

To T. S. Eliot, April 14, 1922 [As for my own story]

To Gerald Brenan, December 25, 1922 [You said you were very wretched]

To Vita Sackville-West, August 19, 1924 [London and the marshes]

Selected Short Stories

Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street

The Introduction

The Man Who Loved His Kind

Selected Nonfiction

Review of Dorothy Richardson's The Tunnel (1919)

From 22 Hyde Park Gate (1920)

From Old Bloomsbury (1922)

On Not Knowing Greek (1925)

Modern Fiction (1925)

Introduction to Modern Library Edition of Mrs. Dalloway (1928)

Literary Sources

Homer

From The Odyssey, Book 5 (late-eighth-to late-seventh-century B.C.E.)

King James Bible

From The Book of Ruth (c. fourth century B.C.E.) / William Shakespeare

From Richard II (1595)

From Othello (1604)

From Cymbeline (1610) / Alexander Pope

From The Rape of the Lock (1717) / John Keats

From Ode to a Nightingale (1819) / Hermann Von Gilm

Allerseelen

All Souls' Day (c. 1863) / H. G. Wells

From Ann Veronica: A Modern Romance (1909) / Rupert Brooke

The Soldier (1915) / T. S. Eliot

From The Waste Land (1922) / Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party (1922)

Historical Contexts / W. H. R. Rivers

The Repression of War Experience (1917) / May Sinclair

The Novels of Dorothy Richardson (1918) / Ted Bogacz

[The War Office Committee of Enquiry into "Shell-Shock"] (1989) / Trudi Tate

[Mrs Dalloway and the Armenians] (1998) / Alison Light

From Mrs. Woolf and the Servants (2007) / Elizabeth Outka

[Mrs. Dalloway and the Influenza Pandemic] (2015)

Criticism

Early Reviews / Anonymous

A Long, Long Chapter [Review of Mrs. Dalloway] (1925) / Anonymous

A Novelist's Experiment [Review of Mrs. Dalloway] (1925) / E. W. Hawkins

The Stream of Consciousness Novel (1926)

Recent Criticism / Christine Froula

Sex, Lies, and Selling Out: Women and Civilization's Discontents (2002) / Molly Hite

[Tonal Cues and Character in Mrs. Dalloway] (2010) / Sara Ahmed

From Feminist Killjoys (2010) / Paul K. Saint-Amour

Mrs. Dalloway and the Gaze of Total War (2015) / Celia Marshik

[Miss Kilman's Mackintosh] (2016).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780393655995

0393655997

OCLC:

1184122322