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Edited by J.H. Stape
In which the hero, who suddenly becomes a heroine, eludes death to live from the reign of Elizabeth I to the end of the 1920s. The author uses the character to explore the social and political position of women, societal constructions of sexual identity, and the situation of the woman author.
229 x 152 mm / 6" x 9" 277 pages 0-631-177-280 hardback December 1998
Edited by ELIZABETH STEELE
University of Toledo
Virginia Woolfs biography of Elizabeth Barrett Brownings spaniel was what she called 'a little escapade', begun to 'ease my brain' in the wake of The Waves (1931). The intensities of that most demanding fiction were soon supplanted by canine psychology and the art of anthropomorphism.
In this new edition, which uses as copy-text the second issue of the first English edition and reproduces the original illustrations, Elizabeth Steele maps the events that inspired the book. She provides a wealth of information about its writing and reception - concerning fact and fiction, and Woolf's views on the art of biography - and details its publication history.
229 x 152 mm / 6 x 9 in 160 pages 12 halftones. 0-631-17729-9 hardback September 1998
Edited by MORRIS BEJA
Ohio State University
In addition to Morris Beja's introduction and notes, this edition provides a map of 'The London of Mrs Dalloway' and a frontispiece, reproducing a page from the corrected proofs. Virginia Woolf's 'Introduction' to the 1928 Modern Library Edition of the novel appears as an appendix. The text here is that of the marked, corrected proofs for the first American edition. A list of variants compares: the copy text and the two first editions; a further set of corrected proofs which Virginia Woolf sent to Jacques Raverat; and a set of unmarked proofs.
229 x 152 mm / 6" x 9" 288 pages 1 halftone, 1 map 0-631-17783-3 hardback December 1996
Edited by C. RUTH MILLER and
LAWRENCE MILLER
University of Toronto
The Shakespeare Head Press Edition of The Voyage Out is based on a careful consideration of all the versions of the text published during Woolf's lifetime and an examination of a privately-owned copy that Woolf herself marked for revision.
In their introduction the editors explore Woolf's adaptation of traditional forms to express innovative themes and attitudes and show how the novel prefigures Woolf"s later concern with the connections between art and life. The text is supplemented by detailed annotations and an apparatus listing all variants and emendations.
229 x 152 mm / 6" x 9" 448 pages 0-631-17731-0 hardback June 1996
Edited by DIANE F. GILLESPIE
Washington State University
This edition is based on the text first published by the Hogarth Press in 1940, amended to include corrections Woolf requested but which were never made in the impressions printed by the Press before her death. A relatively complete typescript version of the biography survives, as part of the Berg collection at the New York Public Library, and the results of a computer collation of this typescript with the first English edition are included in a list of substantive variants. These document Woolf"s revising and editing process in response to stylistic concerns and to the actual or anticipated reactions of her readers, including Fry's family and friends.
In her introduction, Diane F. Gillespie traces Woolf's work on the biography, including the problems she faced and the solutions she found, and provides a history of its critical reception. Annotations identify sources as well as the historical and personal contexts of Fry's remarks and experiences. Other appendices contain previously unpublished materials: memoirs by Roger Fry and a further, brief, attempt by Woolf to sketch his portrait in words.
229 x 152 mm / 6" x 9" 18 halftones 432 pages 0-631-17727-2 hardback 1995
Edited by J. H. STAPE
Japan Women's University
The Shakespeare Head Press Edition of Night and Day is based on a detailed study of the extant manuscript fragment and on a computer comparison of the first English and American editions of the novel.
In the introduction and in the annotations to his edition, J. H. Stape elucidates in concise detail the novel's preoccupations and origins, its historical and biographical background, and reveals how, in creating her characters, Woolf drew directly from the life. Her sitters included Anne Thackeray Ritchie, Leonard Woolf (whose own roman a clef The Wise Virgins forms an illuminating adjunct to his wife's novel), Lytton Strachey and Vanessa Bell, the author's sister to whom Night and Day is dedicated. A map of early twentieth-century London is included, as is a plate from the manuscript.
229 x 152 mm / 6" x 9" 400 pages 1 map 0-631-17875-9 hardback 1994
Edited by JAMES HAULE and PHILIP SMITH, JR
University of Texas Pan American and University of Waterloo, Ontario (retired)
The text of this edition of The Waves is that of the first English edition, its authority having been established by comparisons with the first American edition, which retains the unrevised reading of the novel, and with the uncorrected proofs recently made available at the William Allan Neilson Library of Smith College.
The editors' introduction discusses the genesis of The Waves, its autobiographical and biographical elements, the process of composition and revision, and the history of its early critical reception. An extensive series of notes aids the reader in identifying allusions and motifs, many of which are fundamental to the structure of the novel. Of particular interest are the influence of English poetry and drama, Woolf's speculations on the proper form of fiction, and the importance of her understanding of everything from the art of Titian to theories of quantum mechanics.
229 x 152 mm / 6" x 9" 224 pages 2 halftones in text 0-631-17723-X hardback 1993
Edited by SUSAN DICK
Professor of English, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The text of this edition of To the Lighthouse is that of the English page proofs corrected by Virginia Woolf for the first American edition. This text comes closer than any previously published to presenting the novel as she intended it. All the corrections she made on the page proofs are reproduced, and the punctuation of the proofs is retained. A list of variants is included in which significant passages cancelled or revised on the proofs, along with all substantive variants in the first English and American editions are recorded. An introduction is also provided which discusses the genesis of To the Lighthouse, its autobiographical and biographical elements, and the history of its critical reception.
229 x 152 mm / 6" x 9" 256 pages 0-631-17874-0 hardback 1992
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