num_pages: 547
description: Katherine Hilbery, torn between past and present, is a figure reflecting Woolf's own struggle with history. Both have illustrious literary in Katherine's case, her poet grandfather, and in Woolf's, her father Leslie Stephen, writer, philosopher, and editor. Both desire to break awayfrom the demands of the previous generation without disowning it altogether. Katherine must decide whether or not she loves the iconoclastic Ralph Denham; Woolf seeks a way of experimenting with the novel for that still allows her to express her affection for the literature of the past.This is the most traditional of Woolf's novels, yet even here we can see her beginning to break free; in this, her second novel, with its strange mixture of comedy and high seriousness, Woolf had already found her own characteristic voice.
language: English
title: Night and Day
titlecomplete: Night and Day
characters: William Rodney, Ralph Denham, Cassandra Otway, Katharine Hilbery, Mary Datchet
genres: Fiction, English Literature, British Literature, Womens, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Feminism, 20th Century
ratings_count: 9097
places: London, England
publisher: Oxford University Press