Jacob's Room (Annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition

Jacob's Room (Annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition - Paperback

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Jacob's Room (Annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition
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Jacob's Room (Annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition - Paperback

Jacob's Room (Annotated): The Virginia Woolf Library Annotated Edition - Paperback

by Virginia Woolf , Mark Hussey
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Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to his too-early death during World War I.

Annotated and with an introduction by Vara Neverow

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Jacob s Room . . . comes as a tremendous surprise. The impossible has occurred . . . A new type of fiction has swum into view. --E. M. Forster

This landmark novel tells the story of the all-too-brief life of Jacob Flanders, from his childhood in Scarborough through his student years at Cambridge and his bachelor days in London to his death while still a young man during World War I. Though he is an object of love and desire for many of the characters in the novel, Jacob remains curiously unknowable during his short life, as remote and mysterious as the classical landscapes and Greek ruins to which he is drawn. His room, the focus of so much longing and wondering over the course of the novel, is opened to those who care about him only after his death. This haunting elegy marks Woolf s assumption of her full powers as a Modernist novelist. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, transformed the art of the novel. The author of numerous novels, collections of letters, journals, and short stories, she was an admired literary critic and a master of the essay form.
Mark Hussey, general editor of Harcourt's annotated Woolf series, is professor of English at Pace University in New York City and editor of the Woolf Studies Annual.Vara Neverow is professor of English and women's studies at Southern Connecticut State University. She is the managing editor of Virginia Woolf Miscellany and a past president of the International Virginia Woolf Society."
ISBN9780156034791
Author Virginia Woolf , Mark Hussey
PublisherMariner Books
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages432
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), one of the great twentieth-century authors, was at the center of the Bloomsbury Group and is a major figure in the history of literary feminism and modernism. She published her first novel, The Voyage Out, in 1915, and between 1925 and 1931 produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces, including Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), and The Waves (1931). She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism, short fiction, journalism, and biography, including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) and the passionate feminist essay A Room of One's Own (1929).
About Mark Hussey
Mark Hussey is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Pace University in New York. He is founding editor of Woolf Studies Annual and general editor of the Harcourt Annotated Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, for which he edited To the Lighthouse. His recent publications include Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism (2022) and Modernism's Print Cultures (with Faye Hammill, 2016).

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