The Voyage Out: A Modernist Coming-of-Age on an Edwardian Sea Voyage of Self-Discovery and Social Satire - Couverture souple

Woolf, Virginia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 8028524729 ISBN 13 : 9788028524722

Editeur : Copycat, 2026

Synopsis

Virginia Woolf's The Voyage Out (1915), her first novel, traces Rachel Vinrace's journey from England to South America, where travel becomes a medium for psychological awakening, social observation, and existential discovery. Though more conventionally plotted than Woolf's later fiction, the novel already reveals her distinctive modernist sensibility: shifting interior perspectives, lyrical prose, and a searching critique of Edwardian manners, empire, and gendered expectation. Beneath its surface as a voyage narrative and Bildungsroman lies a probing meditation on innocence, desire, and the constraints placed upon women in early twentieth-century society. Woolf drew on her own upbringing within an intellectually eminent yet emotionally fraught Victorian household, as well as on formative experiences of travel, bereavement, and exclusion from formal education. A central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, she was deeply engaged with questions of art, consciousness, and women's freedom; these concerns are already visible here. The Voyage Out emerges from the threshold between late Victorian realism and high modernism, showing Woolf experimenting toward the innovations that would define her mature work. This novel is especially recommended to readers interested in the origins of literary modernism and in Woolf's development as a novelist. It rewards close attention not only as an accomplished debut, but as an essential introduction to the ethical and aesthetic concerns that animate her greatest works.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Copycat
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 8028524729
• ISBN 13: 9788028524722
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible