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Mrs. Dalloway

A Norton Critical Edition
By Virginia Woolf
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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Mrs. Dalloway traces a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a party in post-World War I London. Through stream-of-consciousness narrative, Virginia Woolf explores themes of time, memory, and identity, revealing the inner lives of her characters and the influences of their social world.
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This Norton Critical Edition is ideal for students and scholars of literature, offering the original 1925 American text alongside extensive contextual materials, critical essays, and historical background to enrich understanding of Woolf's work.

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“Illuminating and original combination of biographical, historical, literary, and critical sources for Mrs. Dalloway by the leading Woolf scholar who edited the annotated edition of the novel. Diary and letter selections provide fresh contexts. Superb resource for teachers and students!”—Susan Stanford Friedman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:

  • The 1925 first American edition text, introduced and annotated by Anne Fernald.
  • A map of Mrs. Dalloway's London.
  • An unusually rich selection of contextual materials, including diary entries and letters related to the composition of the novel, essays, short stories, and biographical excerpts, and the only introduction that Virginia Woolf wrote to any of her novels. The voices of other writers are also included, allowing readers to consider the literary passages that influenced Woolf's art and historical moment.
  • Eight reviews of Mrs. Dalloway, from publication to the present day.
  • A chronology and a selected bibliography.

About the Series

Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format—annotated text, contexts, and criticism—helps students to better understand, analyse, and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources students need.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393655995

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 February 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Edition: Critical edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Anne Fernald

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 334g

Pages: 400

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Series: Norton Critical Editions Virginia Woolf

About the Author

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) was the world-renowned author of Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and The Waves, among other works. Anne E. Fernald is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Fordham University. She is the author of Virginia Woolf: Feminism and the Reader and editor of a textual edition of Mrs. Dalloway for Cambridge University Press. Her articles have appeared in Feminist Studies, Modern Fiction Studies, Guernica, Open Letters Monthly, and multiple edited collections.

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