{"product_id":"jacobs-room-isbn-9780631177227","title":"Jacob's Room","description":"First published in 1922, \u003ci\u003eJacob’s Room\u003c\/i\u003e was Virginia Woolf’s third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. The editor provides an extensive introduction, discussing the genesis of the novel, its biographical elements, the process of composition and revision, and the history of its early critical reception. A series of notes helps the reader to identify references and allusions, from sponge-bag trousers and gold beater’s skin to Tonks and Steer, and the Hampstead Garden Suburbs; while an appendix lists variants between the first UK and first US editions of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e  Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrontispiece.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJACOB’S ROOM.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNOTES AND APPENDICES.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A: Emendations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B: Textual Variants.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C: Chronology\u003c\/p\u003e Edward L. Bishop is Professor of English at the University of Alberta, Canada. He has previously edited \u003ci\u003eJacob’s Room: The Holograph Draft\u003c\/i\u003e (1998) and compiled \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Group, Dictionary of Literary Biography Documents Series\u003c\/i\u003e (1992) and \u003ci\u003eA Virginia Woolf Chronology\u003c\/i\u003e (1989).  First published in 1922, \u003ci\u003eJacob’s Room\u003c\/i\u003e was Virginia Woolf’s third novel and the first in her more experimental mode. Set in the years leading up to the First World War, the work is an elegy, not just for an individual character, but for a generation lost in and affected by the war.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis Shakespeare Head Press edition restores the text to its original form, notably recreating the space breaks on the page with which Woolf deliberately fragmented her narrative. The editor provides an extensive introduction, discussing the genesis of the novel, its biographical elements, the process of composition and revision, and the history of its early critical reception. A series of notes helps the reader to identify references and allusions, from sponge-bag trousers and gold beater’s skin to Tonks and Steer, and the Hampstead Garden Suburbs; while an appendix lists variants between the first UK and first US editions of the work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989486223589,"sku":"NP9780631177227","price":147.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631177227.jpg?v=1761784298","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/jacobs-room-isbn-9780631177227","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}