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To the Lighthouse

A Norton Critical Edition
By Virginia Woolf
Series: Norton Critical Editions
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To the Lighthouse is a modernist novel by Virginia Woolf, exploring themes of time, memory, and perception through the experiences of the Ramsay family and their guests on the Isle of Skye. The narrative delves deeply into family dynamics and the impact of World War I, framed by the symbolic journey to the lighthouse.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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This edition is ideal for students, educators, and scholars of modernist literature seeking detailed critical insight into Woolf's work and its historical and literary contexts.

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“One of Woolf's most beloved novels, To the Lighthouse, finally gets a Norton Critical Edition. In Margaret Homans, To the Lighthouse has an ideal editor, for Homans brings her deep knowledge of the Victorian world Woolf portrays, her long admiration for

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This Norton Critical Edition includes:

  • The American edition of the novel, first published by Harcourt Brace in 1927, introduced and annotated by Margaret Homans.
  • A 1924-28 chronology of To the Lighthouse's composition, revision, publication, and reception.
  • A rich selection of background materials, thematically organised for ease of reference. Topics include: "Autobiographical Writings," "Family and Other Contemporary Contexts and Sources," "Essays by Virginia Woolf," and "Literary Sources."
  • Nine critical assessments of To the Lighthouse, from publication to the present day, by Arthur Sydney McDowell, Louis Kronenberger, Mary Colum, Francis Brown, Erich Auerbach, Adrienne Rich, Rachel Bowlby, Pamela L. Caughie, and Urmila Seshagiri.
  • A chronology and a selected bibliography.

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Margaret Homans's introduction and annotations provide a comprehensive context that enriches understanding of the novel. The edition includes familial and literary sources, a detailed chronology, early reviews, and diverse scholarly analyses addressing gender, empire, and artistic roles. Emily Kopley from McGill University praises this edition as a remarkable resource for students and scholars alike.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780393422597

Publisher: WW Norton & Co

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: WW Norton & Co

Contributors:

  • Edited by Margaret Homans

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 318g

Pages: 384

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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. Margaret Homans is a professor of English and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Yale University. She is the author of Bearing the Word: Language and Female Experience in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing; Royal Representations: Queen Victoria and British Culture, 1837?1876; Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Bronte, and Emily Dickinson; The Imprint of Another Life: Adoption Narratives and Human Possibility; and Virginia Woolf: A Collection of Critical Essays.

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