Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

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Broadview Press, Dec 28, 2012 - Fiction - 300 pages

Mrs. Dalloway takes place on one day in the middle of June 1923. Its plot is seemingly thin: a middle-aged society hostess is having a party; she hopes the Prime Minister will attend; she reconnects with old friends from her youth. From these slimmest of premises a whole world unfolds. Of all of Virginia Woolf’s novels, it is Mrs. Dalloway that appears to speak most intimately to our own time.

Selected contemporary reviews, both positive and negative, are included in the appendices of this edition, as are materials on the literary, political, medical, and educational contexts of the novel.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
7
Introduction
9
A Brief Chronology
35
A Note on the Text
41
Mrs Dalloway
43
Contemporary Reviews
201
Literary Context
215
Political Context
235
Medical Context
247
Educational and Social Context
257
Works Cited and Select Bibliography
265
from the publisher
271
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Jo-Ann Wallace is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta.

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