Off the Page: Anne E. Fernald

Literary scholar Anne E. Fernald, an authority on modernist literature and women's studies, delivers a morning lecture at the Sarasota Art Museum as part of the county's Off the Page program. Fernald is widely recognized for editing the Cambridge University Press edition of Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway. Her talk examines the structural innovations of early twentieth-century fiction and the ongoing relevance of modernist stream-of-consciousness techniques. The presentation delves into the meticulous editorial work required to compile authoritative editions of classic texts, highlighting how authorial revisions and historical context shape academic interpretation.