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      Jacob's Room

      by Virginia Woolf, Urmila Seshagiri

      Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war.

      FORMAT
      Paperback
      LANGUAGE
      English
      CONDITION
      Brand New


      Publisher Description

      'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.' Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; youngmen desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great War thunders across Europe. A daring work that reimagines everyelement of the traditional novel, Jacob's Room tells a new story for a new century. In 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob's Room 'a most wonderful achievementDLmore like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal.' One hundred years after its publication, Woolf's first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.

      Table of Contents

      IntroductionNote on the TextSelect BibliographyA Chronology of Virginia WoolfMapsJacob's RoomExplanatory Notes

      Review

      In a brilliant and stimulating new introduction, Urmila Seshagiri ... proves that the daring experimentalism of the novel is also an "essential accomplishment", and uncovers the wealth of the novel and some of its potentialities that still beg to be explored further. * Christine Reynier, Archiv *

      Long Description

      'What do we seek through millions of pages? Still hopefully turning the pages -- oh, here is Jacob's room.'Who is Jacob Flanders? Virginia Woolf's third novel, published in 1922 alongside James Joyce's Ulysses and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, follows this elusive title character from a sunlit childhood on the Cornwall coast to adventures in Cambridge, London, and Athens. Women fall in love with Jacob; young men desire his company and conversation. But Woolf keeps her scornful, charming protagonist at a distance, enveloping Jacob in mystery as he enters adulthood and the Great Warthunders across Europe. A daring work that reimagines every element of the traditional novel, Jacob's Room tells a new story for a new century.In 1922, Lytton Strachey pronounced Jacob's Room 'a most wonderful achievement--more like poetry, it seems to me, than anything else, and as such I prophesy immortal.' One hundred years after its publication, Woolf's first full-length work of experimental fiction pulls us into the inexhaustible mysteries of intimacy and mortality.

      Feature

      A new edition of Virginia Woolf's third novel - her first full-length experimental work - edited with an Introduction and Notes by Urmila Seshagiri2022 marks the centenary of Jacob's Room, first published on 26 October, 1922This edition reproduces Woolf's original 1922 Hogarth Press textAn adept Introduction which brings Jacob's Room into current conversations about the modernist movement and establishes its significance for Woolf's development as an authorDetailed maps allow the reader to follow Jacob's travels throughout the novel

      Details

      ISBN0192857398
      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Series Oxford World's Classics
      Language English
      Year 2022
      Edition 2nd
      ISBN-10 0192857398
      ISBN-13 9780192857392
      Format Paperback
      Imprint Oxford University Press
      Place of Publication Oxford
      Country of Publication United Kingdom
      Pages 240
      Publication Date 2022-06-09
      NZ Release Date 2022-06-09
      UK Release Date 2022-06-09
      Illustrations 3 black and white Maps
      Author Urmila Seshagiri
      Illustrator Leon Baxter
      Edited by Urmila Seshagiri
      Birth 1932
      Death 1950
      Affiliation Associate Professor of Creativity and Assistant Director of the Program in Peacebuilding in the Arts, Brandeis University
      Position Associate Professor of Creativity and Assistant Director of the Program in Peacebuilding in the Arts
      Qualifications PhD
      Edition Description 2nd Revised edition
      DEWEY 823.912
      Audience General
      AU Release Date 2022-10-06

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