[Vwoolf] Shakespeare Head "A Room of One's own"

Jean Mills millsj7 at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 15:50:10 EST 2015


Congrats! I look forward to reading it.

Jean

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Stuart N. Clarke <
stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com> wrote:

>       "A Room of One's own", edited by David Bradshaw and me, was
> published on 24 January 2015.  The first in the series, “To the
> Lighthouse”, appeared in December 1992.  So, after 22 years, “A Room”
> completes the Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Virginia Woolf.
>
> Here’s the blurb:
>
>
> ‘Widely acknowledged as a pioneering text of the women’s movement, *A
> Room of One’s Own* is one of Virginia Woolf’s most influential works.
> Couched as an entertaining fiction, this book-length essay investigates the
> patriarchal realities of its time, the long history of discrimination
> against women and the stifling effect of such prejudice on women’s
> creativity. The prescient concluding words of the dust-jacket of the
> first British edition (which in all probability were written by the author
> herself) stated that: “*an attempt is made ... to forecast what effect
> comparative freedom and independence will have upon women’s artistic work
> in the future.”* These words remain no less relevant today.
>
>
>
> ‘The first comprehensive and authoritative edition of this foundational
> text of the women’s movement, and one of the most significant works in
> her own canon, this timely and important new edition of Virginia Woolf’s *A
> Room of One’s Own* adopts the complete text of the first British edition
> published in London on October 24, 1929. Additional features include a
> comprehensive introduction detailing the process and composition of Woolf’s
> original essay and the evolution of its subsequent publication history.
> Extensive explanatory notes add further illumination by revealing the
> essay’s broader political, historical, social, and literary contexts. A
> comprehensive appendix also highlights variations between each of the
> British editions that appeared in Woolf’s lifetime and the first American
> edition, as well as alterations made in the first British edition from
> Woolf’s uncorrected proofs, and current editorial emendations incorporated
> in this new edition.’
>
>
>
> Here you can read the prelims, inc. the introduction:
>
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118299210
>
>
>
> Here you can read the Contents page and the first chapter:
>
> http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118298764.html
>
> Stuart
>
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Jean Mills
Associate Professor
The Department of English
John Jay College/CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room 7.63.12
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