[Vwoolf] Best editions for students

[Brenda S. Helt]

Ellen, I think a lot of us in the US use the annotated edition published by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.  Mark Hussey is the general editor of the series and a different renowned Woolf scholar introduces each individual novel and writes the annotations.  It’s helpful for students to have these annotations, I’ve found, as well as these fabulous introductions.  (Not only do many students not understand the historical or geographical contexts to Woolf’s novels, but they don’t understand some of the customs and terminology.  Here’s amazon’s link for the annotated edition of The Waves:  https://www.amazon.com/Waves-Annotated-Virginia-Woolf/dp/0156031574  Personally, I always insisted that students all get exactly the same edition with the same ISBN, explaining to them that if I tell them to look on page 32, third line down, they’ll have no idea what I’m talking about if they have a different edition.

 

It’ll be interesting to see if I’m correct in my sense that most Woolf scholars based in the US use these annotated editions to teach the novels . . .

 

Very best,

 

Brenda

 

 

 

Brenda Helt

Co-editor Queer Bloomsbury

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html

 

 

From: Vwoolf [mailto:vwoolf-bounces+helt0010=umn.edu at lists.osu.edu] On Behalf Of Ellen Moody via Vwoolf
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I have not yet taught that course on "The Later Woolf" I've been talking about; it starts in early March.  So now it's time to ask which is the best edition to advise the class members to obtain? not that they necessarily will obtain that one ...

 

Ellen Moody

ellen.moody at gmail.com

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