Night and Day

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.

List of illustrations and list of maps; General editors' preface; Notes on the edition; Acknowledgements; Chronology of Virginia Woolf's life and work; List of abbreviations; List of archival sources for manuscript, typescript and proof material relating to Night and Day; List of editorial symbols; Introduction; Chronology of the composition of Night and Day; Maps; Night and Day; Explanatory notes; Textual apparatus; Textual notes; Bibliography.

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.