This edition takes the first British edition of The Years as its copy-text, and includes a comprehensive introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and a full list of textual variants and editorial emendations.
Features a comprehensive introduction, detailing the lengthy process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its subsequent publication history
Includes extensive explanatory notes, highlighting the political, historical, social and literary contexts of the novel
Provides a full account of the variants between the first British and American editions, supplemented by a list of editorial emendations made in this present edition
About the Author
David Bradshaw is Professor of English Literature at Oxford University and Hawthornden Fellow and Tutor in English Literature at Worcester College, Oxford. Among other volumes, he has edited Woolf's The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction,Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and SelectedEssays of Virginia Woolf, The ConciseCompanion to Modernism (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003), and A Companion to ModernistLiterature and Culture (with Kevin J. H. Dettmar; Wiley-Blackwell, 2006). His Shakespeare Head Press edition of Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own (co edited with Stuart N. Clarke) is forthcoming.
Ian Blyth is an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of English, University of St Andrews. He is the co-editor of a forthcoming edition of Woolf’s Orlando and the author of various articles on Woolf and other subjects.
Features
A comprehensive introduction, detailing the lengthy process of the composition and revision of the novel, and its subsequent publication history
The text of the first British edition of The Years (1937)
Extensive explanatory notes, highlighting the political, historical, social and literary contexts of the novel
A full account of the variants between the first British and American editions, supplemented by a list of editorial emendations made in this present edition
