{"title":"Edward Mendelson","description":"Edward Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His books include Early Auden, Later Auden: A Critical Biography (2017); Moral Agents: Eight Twentieth-Century American Writers (2015); and The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life (2007). His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement.","products":[{"product_id":"the-inner-life-of-mrs-dalloway-paperback","title":"The Inner Life of Mrs. Dalloway - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about almost everything. The story of a single day in London after the First World War, it travels backward and forward in time and consciousness, venturing beyond the ordinary world into epic, mythic, and mystical modes. The novel is a work of extraordinary richness, as much for its interwoven webs of meaning as for its moral and psychological vision. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward Mendelson explores the novel's deepest questions, focusing on the core themes of medicine, empire, and love. He traces how Virginia Woolf thought and wrote, considering the complexities and resonances of her works. Mendelson casts \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e as an extended protest against authorities that wield power over others and a defense of the equality of inner lives. He also examines the place of the book in literary history going back to Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare as well as its influence on later writers from Erich Auerbach through Zadie Smith. Both incisive and passionate, this book is at once a wide-ranging critical study of Virginia Woolf's writing and a love letter to a great novel.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376808362207,"sku":"9780231221719","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/lW9tx0ObSw9780231221719.webp?v=1789225401"},{"product_id":"the-things-that-matter-what-seven-classic-novels-have-to-say-about-the-stages-of-life-paperback","title":"The Things That Matter: What Seven Classic Novels Have to Say About the Stages of Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe felt rather inclined just for a moment to stand still after all that chatter, and pick out one particular thing; the thing that mattered . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e--\u003ci\u003eVirginia Woolf, \u003c\/i\u003eTo The Lighthouse\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn illuminating exploration of how seven of the greatest English novels of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries--\u003ci\u003eFrankenstein, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Between the Acts\u003c\/i\u003e--portray the essential experiences of life. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdward Mendelson--a professor of English at Columbia University--illustrates how each novel is a living portrait of the human condition while expressing its author's complex individuality and intentions and emerging from the author's life and times. He explores \u003ci\u003eFrankenstein\u003c\/i\u003e as a searing representation of child neglect and abandonment and \u003ci\u003eMrs. Dalloway\u003c\/i\u003e as a portrait of an ideal but almost impossible adult love, and leads us to a fresh and fascinating new understanding of each of the seven novels, reminding us--in the most captivating way--why they matter.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51402470162655,"sku":"9780307275226","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/PjPrdtHHdX9780307275226.webp?v=1789532027"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/edward-mendelson.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}