Victorian Bloomsbury: Volume 1: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group - Softcover

S. P. Rosenbaum

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0333606957 ISBN 13: 9780333606957

Publisher: Macmillan, 1994

Synopsis

'A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury Group...S P Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as the literary traditions absorbed by this group.' Richard Ellman 'This is more detailed, more considered, more extensive, and therefore far more valuable than anything of the kind we have had before...required reading for anyone professing a serious interest in Bloomsbury.' Andrew McNellie This first volume of a three-volume study of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group describes the intellectual, family and Cambridge backgrounds of Bloomsbury as they are reflected in the Group's early or autobiographical works. While many books have been written on the Bloomsbury Group this is the first to study comprehensively the literary history of their interrelated achievements. Professor Rosenbaum has written a wonderful account of the ideas and people who were the early influences on the Group. He sees the modern period not as the age of 'great men', but in a new light, where original ideas about art, women and society. This book will be of interest not only to anyone fascinated by the Bloomsbury Group, but also to students of Woolf or Forster or Keynes or Strachey who need to know the background of those writers.

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Synopsis

This first of a three-volume study of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group describes the intellectual, family and Cambridge backgrounds of Bloomsbury as they are reflected in the Group's early or autobiographical works, covering not only Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey, but also Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy and others. The book is a comprehensive study of the literary history of their interrelated achievements. It is also an account of the ideas and people who were the early influences on the Bloomsbury Group. It sees the modern period, not as the age of "great men", but in a new light, where original ideas about art, women and society, as they affected and continue to affect - writing, painting, thought, politics, had their beginning. S.P. Rosenbaum is the editor of "A Bloomsbury Group Reader", "Virginia Woolf's Women & Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of 'A Room of One's Own'" and "The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary and Criticism".

About the Author

Stevi Jackson is Professor of Women's Studies and Director of the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. Liu Jieyu is Academic Fellow of the White Rose East Asian Centre based at the University of Leeds. Woo Juhyun has completed a PhD at the University of York on narratives of sexual citizenship and is pursuing further research at the University of York.

About this edition

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0333606957
• ISBN 13: 9780333606957
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 332