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It depends what you mean by "failure". In one sense, <span
style="font-style: italic;">The Pargiters</span> is by definition a
failure, since Woolf considered it so and reconfigured her approach. On
the other hand, from the time people started looking at the manuscripts,
there's been a certain push to see <span style="font-style: italic;">The
Pargiters</span> as more radical than <span style="font-style: italic;">The
Years</span>, even as a lost opportunity or as evidence of Woolf's
cowardice when revising. See, for instance, Grace Radin's study of the
manuscript. Some of the early manuscript work on the book seems to me to
show at least some underlying desire to rescue <span style="font-style:
italic;">The Pargiters</span> from <span style="font-style: italic;">The
Years</span>, but I tend to get defensive about <span
style="font-style: italic;">The Years</span>, which I think is among
Woolf's great accomplishments and severely underappreciated.<br>
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The best source is probably Anna Snaith's edition of <span
style="font-style: italic;">The Years</span> for the Cambridge Edition
of the Works of Virginia Woolf, which has an excellent, thorough
introduction and a useful bibliography. (I think anything by Anna Snaith
is worth reading on this topic or, for that matter, any other.) Also of
some use to you may be <span style="font-style: italic;">Virginia
Woolf's Late Cultural Criticism</span> by Alice Wood. And perhaps
relevant: "<span style="font-style: italic;">The Years:</span> Mapping a
Genre" by Stevens Amidon in <span style="font-style: italic;">The CEA
Critic</span> 71:3 (2009) pp.85-99 and "Virginia Woolf's <span
style="font-style: italic;">The Years:</span> Identity and Time in an
Anti-Family Novel" by Liisa Saariluoma, <span style="font-style:
italic;">Orbis Litterarum</span>, 54:4 (1999) pp.276-300.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Matt Cheney<br>
University of New Hampshire<br>
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I have a quick question for the list. Does anyone know of any published
criticism that does
<i class="">not</i> accept that the “essay-novel” <i class="">The Parroters
</i>was, in itself, a failure?
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<div class="">Thanks, Molly Hite<br class="">
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