Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy

Informationen zum Autor Jesse Wolfe is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Stanislaus. Klappentext Integrates Bloomsbury into a story of literary modernism and cultural modernity that encompasses changing norms concerning love, marriage and sexuality. Zusammenfassung Ambivalence towards Victorian ideals of 'maleness' and 'femaleness' and the value of monogamy and marriage were primary sources of the Bloomsbury Group writers' aesthetic strength. Wolfe combines literary criticism with philosophy! psychoanalysis and sociology to offer a fresh account of the reciprocal relations between historical modernity and artistic modernism. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Autorentext

Jesse Wolfe is Assistant Professor of English at California State University, Stanislaus.

Klappentext

Integrates Bloomsbury into a story of literary modernism and cultural modernity that encompasses changing norms concerning love, marriage and sexuality.

Zusammenfassung
Ambivalence towards Victorian ideals of 'maleness' and 'femaleness' and the value of monogamy and marriage were primary sources of the Bloomsbury Group writers' aesthetic strength. Wolfe combines literary criticism with philosophy, psychoanalysis and sociology to offer a fresh account of the reciprocal relations between historical modernity and artistic modernism.

Inhalt

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.