Scholarly edition of Virginia Woolf's The Years for The Cambridge University Press Edition of Virginia Woolf

我受委托制作一本学术版的《岁月》，作为剑桥大学出版社新版弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫作品的一部分。剑桥伍尔夫是一个姗姗姗姗来的项目，它最终将为伍尔夫的读者和学者提供权威的、完整的伍尔夫小说注释版本。为《岁月》工作的评论家们目前有企鹅经典版或牛津世界经典版，这些版本没有完整注释的范围，只包括选定的文本变体。我的版本将概述伍尔夫一生中小说版本的所有文本变化（英国第一版，1937年，霍加斯出版社；美国第一版，1937年，哈考特出版社；英国统一版，1940年，霍加斯出版社）。这将包括内容、间距、标点符号、连字符和拼写的变化。它将提供一个完整的介绍，追溯小说的组成历史，包括参考手稿材料，打字稿，校样和印刷过程。引言部分还将讨论这部小说被接受的历史。该版本将包括地图、年表和二手资料参考书目。《年代》在文学、历史、文化、地形和政治方面都有丰富的参考资料。这一版本将为这些参考提供详细的解释性注释，为小说开辟新的语境。《岁月》也有一个复杂的六年作曲历史。这一版本将参考纽约公共图书馆未出版的手稿材料，以及死后出版的手稿材料，由米切尔·莱斯卡编辑的《Pargiters：随笔小说部分》。我将在附录中包括相关材料，比如作为小说动力的演讲，以及在校对阶段被删去的“两大块”。这本学术版对于研究伍尔夫的学者和教师来说是必不可少的。它将允许英国和美国的学者在同一版本上工作。虽然这是一个记录版本，不会促进对小说的特定解释，但它将为《岁月》的新阅读奠定背景基础。

I have been commissioned to produce a scholarly edition of The Years as part of Cambridge University Press' new edition of the works of Virginia Woolf. The Cambridge Woolf is a long overdue project, which will finally provide readers and scholars of Woolf with authoritative, fully annotated editions of her novels. Critics working on The Years currently have available the Penguin Classics or the Oxford World Classics editions which do not have the scope for full annotation and only include selected textual variants. My edition will outline all textual variations in editions of the novel produced during Woolf's lifetime (First British edition, 1937, Hogarth Press; First American edition, 1937, Harcourt; British Uniform Edition, 1940, Hogarth Press). This will include variations in content, spacing, punctuation, hyphenation and spelling. It will provide a full introduction which traces the novel's composition history, including reference to manuscript material, typescript, proofs and the printing process. The introduction will also discuss the history of the novel's reception. The edition will include a map, a chronology and a bibliography of secondary sources.The Years is rich in literary, historical, cultural, topographical and political references. This edition will provide detailed explanatory notes for such references, opening up new contexts for the novel. The Years also has a complex, six year composition history. This edition will make reference to the volumes of unpublished manuscript material in the New York Public Library, as well as the manuscript material published posthumously as The Pargiters: the Essay Novel Portion of The Years, edited by Mitchell Leaska. I will include relevant material in appendices, such as the speech which was the impetus for the novel, as well as 'two enormous chunks' which were excised during the proof stage.This scholarly edition will be indispensable for scholars and teachers of Woolf. It will allow British and American academics to work from the same edition. While this is an edition of record which will not promote a particular interpretation of the novel, it will lay the contextual groundwork for new readings of The Years.