Synopses & Reviews
The Bloomsbury Group--its individuals, culture, and unique place in literary and social history--continues to fascinate, inspiring a continuous stream of biographies and criticism. This volume brings together eight key essays by S.P. Rosenbaum, whose own work on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group is widely acclaimed. Subjects covered range from an analysis of the philosophical assumptions underlying Woolf's fiction, an assessment of J.M. Keynes's account of D. H. Lawrence's reaction to Cambridge to the significance of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's work as printers and publishers with the Hogarth Press.
Aspects of Bloomsbury offers readers representative insights into the diverse literary and intellectual world of the Bloomsbury Group.
Review
Rosenbaum takes "Wittgenstein's "fundamental notion of overlapping and criss-crossing similarities" as the basis for his conception of Bloomsbury's literary history and makes this volume its elegant instance.
University of Toronto Quarterly
Synopsis
Much of the widespread interest in the Bloomsbury Group over the past quarter-century has been biographical, yet without the Group's works there would be little interest in their lives. The studies in literary and intellectual history and collected in this volume are chiefly concerned with these works. Subjects covered in the eight essays include an analysis of the philosophical assumption of Virginia Woolf's fiction, an assessment of J M Keyne's account of D H Lawrence's reactions to Cambridge, discussions of the literary backgrounds of E M Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own, a consideration of the Woolfs' work as printers and publishers, and a history of Ludwig Wittgenstein's relations with the Bloomsbury Group.
Synopsis
Eight key essays cover a range of topics related to the Bloomsbury Group, a group whose individuals, culture, and unique place in literary and social history continue to inspire biographies and criticism.
About the Author
S.P. Rosenbaum is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Toronto.
Table of Contents
Preface * The Philosophical Realism of Virginia Woolf * Bertrand Russell: The Logic of a Literary Symbol * Bloomsbury Letters * Keynes, Lawrence and Cambridge Revisited * E. M. Forster's
Aspects of the Novel and Literary History * Towards the Literary History of
A Room of One's Own * Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press * Wittgenstein in Bloomsbury * Notes * Index