The Years

The first fully annotated and collated scholarly edition of Woolf's most political novel.

Virginia Woolf (Author), Anna Snaith (Edited by)

9780521845977, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 29 November 2012

992 pages, 5 b/w illus.
22.2 x 14.7 x 5.4 cm, 1.32 kg

'An astonishing editorial achievement.' The Times Literary Supplement

The Years is perhaps Virginia Woolf's most politically and historically embedded novel. It covers a period of intense social change from the 1880s to the 1930s, making direct reference to suffrage, Irish Home Rule, the First World War and anti-semitism. The novel's composition history is unusually complex; the text changed radically from its inception in 1931 to its publication in 1937. This edition provides readers with a fully collated and annotated text. It includes a substantial introduction that charts the composition process, a detailed chronology and full annotation of all historical, cultural and topographical references. All variants from extant galley and page proofs, as well as editions of the novel produced in Woolf's lifetime, are included, and reveal the significant and crucial changes Woolf made even in the months before publication.

General editors' preface
Notes on the edition
Acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
Chronology of composition
The Years
Explanatory notes
Textual apparatus
Textual notes
Appendix
Bibliography.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: general [DSB]