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Daniel Ferrer, Anne-Laure Rigeade, Monica Latham, Frédérique Amselle, Catherine Rovera (eds). 357 p.Illustrations:5 b/w, 13 col., 1 tables b/w. Language(s):English. Publication Year:2026. ISBN: 978-2-503-59761-4. Brepols. Hardback - Summary Virginia Woolf s reading notes offer a fascinating insight into her mind at work, reading with a pen and notebook, seriously , engaging in a lively dialogue with the literary tradition, receptive to the books she is reading and preparing at the same time the critical work that she intends to produce. The two notebooks published and presented in this volume, notebooks XIV and XLVI (according to Brenda Silver s classification) were used for the preparation of Phases of Fiction , one of her most original works, and for several essays and reviews. They include quotations, comments on the spur of the moment, and tentative planning for the writing in progress. This edition situates the notes in the immediate context of Woolf s writing project and in the general context of her relationship to the authors being read. It provides a full transcription of each note and whenever possible quotes the passage in the source from which it derives, and identifies the place where it has been used. It offers a stimulating demonstration of practical intertextuality in progress. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Reading with pen and notebook Editing the Notebooks Reading Notebooks 14 and 46 Phases of Fiction Layout and contents of the notebooks Conventions for this edition Transcription of Notebook 14 Notes on Sidney Lee, Principles of Biography Notes on Harold Nicolson, Some People Notes on Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho Notes on Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey Notes on Charles Dickens, Bleak House Notes on John Ruskin, Præterita Notes on The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield Notes on Lord Chesterfield s Characters Notes on review of Matrix by Dorothy Wellesley Notes on Charles Dickens, Bleak House Notes on George Eliot, Silas Marner Notes on Henry James, What Maisie Knew Notes on Marcel Proust, The Guermantes Way Notes on Feodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed Notes on Thomas Love Peacock, Crotchet Castle Notes on Tristram Shandy Notes on Herman Melville, Moby Dick Notes on the novel Notes on Florence Emily Hardy, The Early Life of Thomas Hardy Notes for Phases of Fiction Notes on Marcel Proust, Swann s Way Transcription of Notebook 46 Notes on The Letters of Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield Notes on life in fiction Notes on Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho Notes on George Meredith, The Ordeal of Richard Feverel Notes on George Meredith, Beauchamp s Career Notes on George Meredith, The Adventures of Harry Richmond Notes on George Meredith, The Egoist, A Comedy in Narrative Notes on The Letters of George Meredith Notes on Laurence Sterne s Letters Notes on Wilbur L. Cross, The Life and Times of Laurence Sterne Notes on Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey Notes on Charles Dickens, Bleak House Notes on Frances Burney s Diary and Other Writings Notes on Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice Notes on Feodor Dostoevsky, The Possessed Notes on Charles Hughes, Mrs. Piozzi s Thraliana Notes on Hester Lynch Piozzi, Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson Notes on Lady Dudley s obituary Notes on Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington Table of correspondence to Brenda R. Silver Virginia Woolf s Reading Notebooks Colour facsimiles of selected notebook pages.
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