Three Guineas - Couverture souple

Virginia Woolf

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140044949 ISBN 13 : 9780140044942

Editeur : Penguin, 1977

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Although Three Guineas is a work of non-fiction, it was initially conceived as a "novel–essay" which would tie up the loose ends left in her earlier work, A Room of One's Own. The book was to alternate between fictive narrative chapters and non-fiction essay chapters, demonstrating Woolf's views on war and women in both types of writing at once. This unfinished manuscript was published in 1937 as The Pargiters. When Woolf realised the idea of a "novel–essay" wasn't working, she separated the two parts. The non-fiction portion became Three Guineas. The fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, The Years, which charts social change from 1880 to the time of publication through the lives of the Pargiter family. It was so popular, in fact, that pocket-sized editions of the novel were published for soldiers as leisure reading during World War II.

Quatrième de couverture

The highly controversial Three Guineas was Virginia Woolf′s most explicit statement of her feminism. Forming part of the prestigious Shakespeare Head Press series of Woolf′s works, this authoritative new edition includes her carefully considered selection of photographs, her discursive endnotes and extensive new annotations of her references and allusions.

In an illuminating introduction, editor Naomi Black guides the reader through this allusive, highly artful book, discussing its structure and argument and tracing the history of its composition and critical reception. She analyses the text as a representation of Woolf′s feminism, including the way in which the book′s form subverts male conventions of scholarship. All variants and emendations are listed, but the text itself is free of interventions.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140044949
• ISBN 13: 9780140044942
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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