[Vwoolf] "The Pelican Guide to English Literature"

[Jean Mills]

It’s a moment like this that I like to h/t #grateful for decades of feminist scholarship. Can I get an amen? -Jean

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> On Jun 16, 2021, at 3:49 AM, Stuart N. Clarke via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
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> This first appeared in 7 vols in 1961 and was frequently reprinted.  It was revised as "The New Pelican Guide to English Literature" in 1983.  My copy is the 1990 reprint.  In vol. 7 is the late (d. 1983) Frank W. Bradbrook’s "Virginia Woolf: The Theory and Practice of Fiction".  In “To the Lighthouse”:
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> The world of prose has been united with those of poetry and of art.  ‘Orlando’ (1928), though it has brilliant passages, has not the unity of ‘To the Lighthouse’ and the indulgence of fantasy is inclined to pall. ... There are beautiful passages [in ‘The Waves’], but there is not ‘an intimate autobiographical sense of life'. ‘The Years’ (1937) contains, near the beginning, a flash of the old satiri­cal wit in the description of the hypocrisy of Colonel Pargiter and the death, after a painful, protracted illness, of his wife. The novel, as a whole, shows signs of tiredness, and is dull and monotonous. ... [In] ‘Between the Acts’ (1941) [the] heart has gone out of Virginia Woolf's work.
>     That her genius had burned itself out is confirmed by the six pre­viously unpublished short stories at the end of ‘A Haunted House’ (1944).  Her short stories, despite some brilliancies, tend to confirm the sense of a minor talent.
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> “A Haunted House” (1944) Contents:
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> 6 from “Monday or Tuesday” (1921) :
> A Haunted House
> Monday or Tuesday
> An Unwritten Novel
> The String Quartet
> Kew Gardens
> The Mark on the Wall
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> 6 published separately:
> The New Dress - 1927
> The Shooting Party - 1938
> Lappin and Lapinova - 1939
> Solid Objects - 1920
> The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection - 1929
> The Duchess and the Jeweller - 1938
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> 6 unpublished (per Leonard Woolf, but he said “Moments of Being” may have been published; only that story and “The Searchlight” are finally revised):
> Moments of Being: "Slater's Pins Have No Points" – published 1928
> The Man Who Loved his Kind – [1925]
> The Searchlight – [1939]
> The Legacy – [1940]
> Together and Apart – [1925]
> A Summing Up – [1925]
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> Stuart
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