Jacob’s Room (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- First Published: 1922
- Type of Work: Impressionism
- Time of Work: The last decade of the nineteenth century and the decades of the twentieth century, concluding with World War I
- Setting: Mostly England (Cambridge, London, and other areas) and some European countries
- Principal Characters: Jacob Flanders, Betty Flanders, Dick Bonamy, Clara Durrant, Sandra Wentworth Williams
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Culture, Children, Twentieth century, Nature, Literature, Art or artists, Communication, England or English people, World War I, Greek or Roman times, Beaches or seashores
- Locales: England
The Novel
The plot of this novel is not nearly as significant as its characterization, and the characters themselves are important for their thoughts, not their actions. Virginia Woolf focuses not on what happens around the characters but rather on what happens within them, most particularly the central character, Jacob Flanders.
When the novel opens, Jacob is a young boy living in the seaside city of Scarborough with his widowed mother and two brothers. These geographical and familial roots provide the youth with his first experiences of complexity, which foreshadow his...
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