Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy
- Author: Jesse Wolfe, California State University, Stanislaus
- Date Published: June 2011
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107006041
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Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy integrates studies of six members and associates of the Bloomsbury group into a rich narrative of early twentieth century culture, encompassing changes in the demographics of private and public life, and Freudian and sexological assaults on middle-class proprieties Jesse Wolfe shows how numerous modernist writers felt torn between the inherited institutions of monogamy and marriage and emerging theories of sexuality which challenged Victorian notions of maleness and femaleness. For Wolfe, this ambivalence was a primary source of the Bloomsbury writers' aesthetic strength: Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and others brought the paradoxes of modern intimacy to thrilling life on the page. By combining literary criticism with forays into philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, and the avant-garde art of Vienna, this book offers a fresh account of the reciprocal relations between culture and society in that key site for literary modernism known as Bloomsbury.
Read more- Shows how Woolf's and Freud's avant-garde techniques combine with Forster's more traditionalist ones to enrich Bloomsbury's examinations of intimacy
- Explains why Bloomsbury's ambivalent attitudes continue to provoke writers and filmmakers today
- Includes historical, sociological and demographic data enabling readers to see the larger context of the various texts
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- Date Published: June 2011
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107006041
- length: 272 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 4 b/w illus. 14 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: narrating Bloomsbury
Part I. Philosophical Backgrounds:
1. The apostle: yellowy goodness in Bloomsbury's bible
2. The analyst: Freud's denial of innocence
Part II. Defeated Husbands:
3. The Bloomsburian: Forster's missing figures
4. The adversary: the love that cannot be escaped
Part III. Domestic Angels:
5. The Bloomsburian: Woolf's sane woman in the attic
6. The acolyte: a return to essences
Conclusion: the prescience of the two Bloomsburies
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index.
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