Mrs. Dalloway

ISBN-13: 9781551117232 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 300 str.

Virginia Woolf

Opis

Woolfs influential novel explores the depth of meaning in a seemingly ordinary day of one womans life. Includes contextual material.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Virginia Woolf: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Mrs. Dalloway

Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews

1. From John W. Crawford, “One Day in London the Subject of Mrs. Woolf’s New Novel,” The New YorkTimes Book Review (10 May 1925)
2. From Richard Hughes, “A Day in London Life,” Saturday Review of Literature (16 May 1925)
3. From [Arthur Sydney McDowall,] “A Novelist’s Experiment,” Times Literary Supplement (21 May 1925)
4. From Gerald Bullett, “New Fiction,” The Saturday Review (30 May 1925)
5. From “New Novels,” New Statesman (6 June 1925)
6. From J.F. Holms, The Calendar of Modern Letters (July 1925)
7. From E.M. Forster, “The Novels of Virginia Woolf,” The Criterion (April 1926)
8. From Edwin Muir, “Contemporary Writers: Virginia Woolf,” Nation and Athenaeum (17 April 1926)

Appendix B: Literary Context

1. From Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (1915)
2. Virginia Woolf, “Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street,” The Dial (July 1923)
3. From Virginia Woolf, Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown (1924)
4. From Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (1925)

Appendix C: Political Context

1. From J. Ramsay MacDonald, War and the Workers: A Plea for Democratic Control (1915)
2. “German Women in London,” The Times (13 May 1915)
3. From Sir Valentine Chirol, “India Old and New. I. Mr. Gandhi’s Teaching,” The Times (23 December 1920)
4. “Prime Minister’s Appeal. ‘Only Practicable Solution,’ Call to Electors” The Times (5 December 1923)
5. List of British Prime Ministers from 1916 to 1937

Appendix D: Medical Context

1. From George H. Savage, “Moral Insanity” (July 1881)
2. From W.H.R. Rivers, “Psychiatry and the War” (18 April 1919)
3. From Henry Head, “An Address on the Diagnosis of Hysteria” (1922)

Appendix E: Educational and Social Context

1. From Cicely Hamilton and Lilian Baylis, The Old Vic (1926)
2. “Sir W. Anson on Workmen’s Colleges,” The Times (20 September 1905)
3. From the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act (1919)

Works Cited and Select Bibliography