The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group

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The Handbook to the Bloomsbury Group is the most comprehensive available survey of contemporary scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group – the set of influential writers, artists and thinkers whose members included Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and David Garnett. With chapters written by world leading scholars in the field, the book explores novel avenues of thinking about these pivotal figures and their works opened up by the new modernist studies. It brings together overview essays with detailed illustrative case studies, and covers topics as diverse as feminism, sexuality, empire, philosophy, class, nature and the arts. Setting the agenda for future study of Bloomsbury, this is an essential resource for scholars of 20th-century modernist culture. Cover Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents Figures Contributors Introduction Notes Works Cited Chapter One Bloomsbury and Sexuality Foundations I: Cambridge Foundations II: London – On the Threshold of the Modern Sexuality, Aesthetics, and Morals: Four Classes The Profane and Perverse: Saxon Sydney-turner A Bloomsbury Bawd: Vanessa Bell Making The World Dance: Virginia Woolf Sexuality and Spirituality: Lytton Strachey and Duncan Grant Works Cited Case Study: Edward Carpenter’s Radical Integrity and its Influence on E. M. Forster Carpenter’s Writings and Life Labouchere, a Culture of Fear, and the Comparative Virtues of Singular and Double Selves The Sickness of Victorian Gender Roles Sexology, Strategic Essentialism, and The Idea of a Dissident Carpenter’s Historical Idealism and Forster’s Scepticism Notes Works Cited Chapter Two Bloomsbury and the Arts Roger Fry and Relational Aesthetics The Post-impressionist Exhibitions of 1910 and 1912 Omega Workshops The Hogarth Press Vanessa Bell Duncan Grant Art Institutions Significance Works Cited Case Study: Clive Bell and the Legacies of Significant Form Notes Works Cited Chapter Three Bloomsbury and Empire Section 1: Historicity, Particularity, Locality Section 2: The White Britishness Of Empire Section 3: Nationally British, Culturally English Section 4: Opposition, Independence Section 5: Power Inside and Across Borders Section 6: Life Then. Death. Life Now Conclusion: The Place Without The People Notes Works Cited Case Study: Race, Empire, and Performative Activism in Late Edwardian Bloomsbury The Assassination of Sir Curzon Wyllie The Dreadnought Hoax Notes Works Cited Chapter Four Bloomsbury and Feminism The Neighbourhood In the Studio Conversation Notes Works Cited Case Study: Bloomsbury, the Hogarth Press, and Feminist Organizations Notes Works Cited Chapter Five Bloomsbury and Philosophy Challenging Cambridge Philosophy’s Priority The Problem of Philosophy Philosophical Bloomsbury Keynes on the History of Ideas and Human Being Strachey on Relational Life and History Vanessa Bell and the Perspective of Emptiness Virginia Woolf’s Late Philosophy Notes Works Cited Case Study: Bloomsbury, Mulk Raj Anand, and Henri Bergson Anand and Bloomsbury Anand, Woolf, and Shiva-shakti Shakti as Bergsonian élan Vital élan Vital as Aesthetic Experience in Untouchable Conclusion: the Political Possibilities of the élan Vital Notes Works Cited Chapter Six Bloomsbury and Class The Omega Workshops’ Artistic-economic Experiment The Hogarth Press, Class, and the Literary Market Virginia Woolf and The Complexity of Class Notes Works Cited Case Study: Bloomsbury’s Rural Cross-class Encounters Charleston Farmhouse – Firle Monk’s House – Rodmell Notes Works Cited Chapter Seven Bloomsbury and Jewishness Notes Works Cited Case Study: Leonard Woolf and John Maynard Keynes: Palestine, Zionism, and The State of Israel Notes Works Cited Chapter Eight Bloomsbury and Nature The Nature of Post-impressionism Post-impressionist Fiction and Inhuman Nature Vita, Virginia, and Queer Nature Notes Works Cited Case Study: Eating Animals and the Aesthetics of Meat in Virginia Woolf’s The Years Notes Works Cited Chapter Nine Bloomsbury and Politics Notes Works Cited Case Study: From Bolshevism to Bloomsbury: the Garnett Translations and Russian Politics in England The English Domestication of Russian Politics Garnett’s Translations Beyond Bloomsbury Notes Works Cited Chapter Ten Bloomsbury and War The First World War The Spanish Civil War The Second World War Holding Space for Peace Notes Works Cited Case Study: Bloomsbury’s Pacifist Aesthetics: Woolf, Keynes, Rodker Peace and Quiet: Virginia Woolf The Peace and the Armistice: John Maynard Keynes Peace Vibrations: John Rodker Notes Works Cited Index