Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group / edited by Victoria Rosner, Columbia University.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Details

Additional Authors

Rosner, Victoria

Description

xiv, 245 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.

Summary

"Named after a small neighborhood in London where its members settled as young adults, the Bloomsbury Group produced an impressive body of work that yielded British Post-Impressionist painting, literary modernism, the field of macroeconomics, and a new direction for public taste in art. This Companion offers a comprehensive guide to the intellectual and social contexts surrounding Bloomsbury and its coterie, which includes writer Virginia Woolf, economist Maynard Keynes, and art critic Roger Fry, among others. Thirteen chapters from leading scholars and critics explore the Bloomsbury Group's rejection of Victorian values and social mores, their interventions in issues of empire and international politics, their innovations in the literary and visual arts, and more. Complete with a chronology of key events and a detailed guide to further reading, this Companion provides scholars and students of English literature with fresh perspectives on the achievements of this remarkable circle of friends"--

Series Statement

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Uniform Title

Cambridge companions to literature.

Subjects

• Bloomsbury group
• Modernism (Aesthetics) > Great Britain
• Bloomsbury (London, England) > Intellectual life > 20th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Introduction / Victoria Rosner -- Part I. Origins: 2. Victorian Bloomsbury / Katy Mullin; 3. Cambridge Bloomsbury / Ann Banfield -- Part II. Everyday Life: 4. Domestic Bloomsbury / Morag Shiach; 5. Bloomsbury as queer subculture / Christopher Reed -- Part III. Politics: 6. War, peace, and internationalism / Christine Froula; 7. Bloomsbury and empire / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina -- Part IV. Arts: 8. Pens and paintbrushes / Mary Ann Caws ; 9. The Bloomsbury Group and the book arts / Helen Southworth; 10. Bloomsbury aesthetics / Laura Marcus -- Part V. Reflections of Bloomsbury: 11. The Bloomsbury narcissus / Vesna Goldsworthy; 12. Intellectual crossings and reception / Brenda R. Silver; 13. Bloomsbury's afterlife / Regina Marler -- Appendix A. Chronology / Molly Pulda -- Appendix B. Further reading.

Call Number

JFE 14-6173

ISBN

• 9781107018242 (hardback)
• 1107018242 (hardback)
• 9781107623415 (paperback)
• 1107623413 (paperback)

LCCN

2013036434

OCLC

859061441

Title

The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group / edited by Victoria Rosner, Columbia University.

Publisher

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cambridge Companions to Literature

Cambridge companions to literature.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Rosner, Victoria, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 14-6173