A romantic comedy in which the central characters have a distinctly unromantic disposition, Night and Day was Virginia Woolf's second novel. Written during the First World War, the novel is set in the suffrage campaign of the pre-war years. Often understood as a deliberate exercise in classicism, it has been neglected by critics drawn to Woolf's later more overtly experimental fictions. This edition provides a substantial introduction, which traces the chronology of the novel's composition and publication, and which draws on previously neglected sources to trace its reception. Its extensive explanatory notes clarify the novel's relation to Woolf's reading and to the literary, cultural, and historical context of its time, with attention both to the time of its setting and its composition. Maps locate the key settings in London and England. The introduction and textual apparatus trace the complex history of the impressions and editions issued during Woolf's lifetime.

Whitworth's edition of Night and Day is more thorough than any previous edition, as regards textual variants, explanatory notes, and the Introduction.

About the Author
Michael H. Whitworth is the author of Einstein's Wake: Relativity, Metaphor, and Modernist Literature (2001), Virginia Woolf (2005), Reading Modernist Poetry (2010), Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway (2015), and editor of Woolf's Orlando (2015). He is a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in the English Faculty, University of Oxford.

Reviews
'... this Cambridge Edition should make its way to libraries, where it will quickly become the standard reference volume for scholars.' Elizabeth Outka, Woolf Studies Annual



Book Information
ISBN 9780521878951
Author Virginia Woolf
Format Hardback
Page Count 858
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 1270g
Dimensions(mm) 224mm * 145mm * 42mm