Dalloway begins with a comprehensive introduction, which constitutes five sections, to Mrs Dalloway. It is the distinctive array of questions posed by Emre to guide the reader in thinking about the novel’s history, structure, and characterisation, as well as the edition’s seamless engagement with influential and largely neglected debates in contemporary modernist scholarship. Dalloway exceptional is not the scale and depth of evidence marshalled to clarify ostensibly abstruse references in Woolf’s novel. In fact, the year in which Emre’s book was published saw the release of a Norton critical edition, also edited by Fernald. Dalloway (2005), annotated by Bonnie Kim Scott Oxford University Press’s Mrs Dalloway (2009), accompanied by David Bradshaw’s notes and Cambridge University Press’s Mrs. There have been others that were published in the last two decades. Dalloway (2021) is not the first annotated version of Virginia Woolf’s novel, Mrs Dalloway (1925). It is true that Merve Emre’s The Annotated Mrs. by Merve Emre (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2022) The result is not only an essential volume for students and Woolf devotees, but an incomparable gift to all lovers of literature.Woolf, Virginia. Alongside her generous commentary, Emre offers hundreds of illustrations and little-known photographs from Woolf’s life. Dalloway, revealing the novel’s artistry and astonishing originality. In this annotated volume based on the original British edition, acclaimed essayist and Oxford don Merve Emre mines Woolf’s diaries and notes on writing to take us into the making of Mrs.

A pivotal work of literary modernism, its simple plot-centered on an upper-class Londoner preparing to give a party-is complicated by Woolf’s satire of the English social system.įor decades, Woolf’s rapturous style and vision of individual consciousness have challenged and inspired readers, novelists, and scholars alike. Dalloway has long been considered Woolf’s masterpiece.

Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.” So begins Virginia Woolf’s much-beloved fourth novel. Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking novel, in a lushly illustrated hardcover edition with illuminating commentary from a brilliant young Oxford scholar and critic.

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