Jacob's room
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Jacob's room
（The Cambridge edition of the works of Virginia Woolf）
Cambridge University Press, 2020
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf's third novel, is short compared with its predecessor Night and Day. She said herself that she learnt what to leave out by putting it all in. Jacob's Room may be read as the simple story of a young man's life from childhood until his death in the First World War, but it is much more than that: it subtly indicts a society that instils obedience and celebrates militarism. Consequently, Jacob's death seems random yet inevitable. Extensive explanatory notes clarify the myriad passing allusions, which should lead to a reassessment of Jacob's Room as one of the great modernist masterpieces, taking its place with Ulysses and The Waste Land in the iconic year of 1922. The substantial introduction includes a detailed account of the novel's composition, publication, and early critical reception, together with chronologies of composition and of Woolf's life.
Table of Contents
- List of illustrations and list of maps
- General editors' preface
- Notes on the edition
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of abbreviations
- List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Jacob's Room
- List of editorial symbols
- Introduction
- Chronology of the composition of Jacob's Room
- Maps
- Jacob's Room
- Explanatory notes
- Textual apparatus
- Textual notes
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Bibliography.
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