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.

Provides a comprehensive guide to the storied Bloomsbury Group, a social circle of prominent intellectuals active during the interwar period.

About the Author
Victoria Rosner teaches classes in English and in the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Columbia University. She is the author of Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life (2005) - winner of the Modernist Studies Association Book Prize - and editor, with Geraldine Pratt, of The Global and the Intimate: Feminism in our Time (2012).

Reviews
'... a timely and necessary source to which we can direct those who might have questions about the dynamic relationships, cultural production, political leanings, and public engagements of the members of the group.' Sarah E. Cornish, Woolf Studies Annual



Book Information
ISBN 9781107623415
Author Victoria Rosner
Format Paperback
Page Count 266
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 360g
Dimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 15mm