Jacob's Room (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Woolf, Virginia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199536589 ISBN 13: 9780199536580

Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2008

Synopsis

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, who is both representative and victim of the social values which led Edwardian society into war. Jacob's life is traced from the time he is a small boy playing on the beach, through his years in Cambridge, then in artistic London, and finally making a trip to Greece, but this is no orthodox Bildungsroman. Jacob is presented in glimpses, in fragments, as Woolf breaks down traditional ways of representing character and experience.

The novel's composition coincided with the consolidation of Woolf's interest in feminism, and she criticizes the privileged thoughtless smugness of patriarchy, `the other side', `the men in clubs and Cabinets'. Her stylistic innovations are conscious attempts to realize and develop women's writing and the novel dramatizes her interest in the ways both language and social environments shape differently the lives of men and women.

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About this title

From the Publisher:

With introductions by Lawrence Norfolk and Elisabeth Bronfen

Book Description:

An experimental novel about a young man who yearns for something greater than his everyday life holds.

About this edition

• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199536589
• ISBN 13: 9780199536580
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Flint Kate