Night and Day

Whitworth's edition of Night and Day is more thorough than any previous edition, as regards textual variants, explanatory notes, and the Introduction.

Virginia Woolf (Author), Michael H. Whitworth (Edited by)

9780521878951, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 11 January 2018

858 pages, 1 b/w illus. 3 maps
22.4 x 14.5 x 4.2 cm, 1.27 kg

'… this Cambridge Edition should make its way to libraries, where it will quickly become the standard reference volume for scholars.' Elizabeth Outka, Woolf Studies Annual

A romantic comedy in which the central characters have a distinctly unromantic disposition, Night and Day was Virginia Woolf's second novel. Written during the First World War, the novel is set in the suffrage campaign of the pre-war years. Often understood as a deliberate exercise in classicism, it has been neglected by critics drawn to Woolf's later more overtly experimental fictions. This edition provides a substantial introduction, which traces the chronology of the novel's composition and publication, and which draws on previously neglected sources to trace its reception. Its extensive explanatory notes clarify the novel's relation to Woolf's reading and to the literary, cultural, and historical context of its time, with attention both to the time of its setting and its composition. Maps locate the key settings in London and England. The introduction and textual apparatus trace the complex history of the impressions and editions issued during Woolf's lifetime.

List of illustrations and list of maps
General editors' preface
Notes on the edition
Acknowledgements
Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work
List of abbreviations
List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Night and Day
List of editorial symbols
Introduction
Chronology of the composition of Night and Day
Maps
Night and Day
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Textual notes
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Classic fiction [pre c 1945 FC], Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]