Jacob's Room

This edition includes a detailed account of the novel's composition, publication and early critical reception, together with chronologies of composition and of Woolf's life.

Virginia Woolf (Author), Stuart N. Clarke (Edited by), David Bradshaw (Edited by)

9780521846745, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 8 October 2020

926 pages
22.3 x 14.5 x 4.9 cm, 1.34 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]