Mrs Dalloway

"Virginia Woolf's 1925 novel, Mrs. Dalloway, is a landmark in modernist/feminist writing, and this Worldview Critical Edition provides the opportunity to make its reading a complete experience. Along with the annotated text, it offers a wide range of supporting material so that the student/scholar can situate the novel in its proper contexts. These include A comprehensive introduction Literary and historical backgrounds, which define Woolf's 'modernism' Biographical sources, which locate some of the most significant ideas of the text-such as the passage of time, female ageing, and insanity - in Woolf's own experiences Woolf's other writings - her diary, essays, letters and short stories which are directly relevant to the composition of Mrs. Dalloway Critical readings of the novel which help to make the text more accessible even while throwing up many new ideas and approaches for further thought-with extracts from J Hillis Miller, Jeremy Tambling, Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, John Batchelor, Carolyn G Heilbrun, Toril Moi, Susan Dick, Makiko Minow-Pinkney and Rachel Bowlby. Brinda Bose teaches in the Department of English at Hindu College, Delhi University. WORLDVIEW PUBLICATIONS 58 UB. BUNGALOW ROAD DELHI-110.007 NOm"