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A Bloomsbury Group Reader
S. P. Rosenbaum
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Description for A Bloomsbury Group Reader
Paperback. aeo Gathers together a whole corpus of often little known writings by prominent literary figures such as Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster and Roger Fry. aeo Many key pieces not previously reprinted. aeo Draws widely from writings on art, literature, psychology and politics. aeo Includes brief summaries as head notes to each piece. Editor(s): Rosenbaum, S. P. Num Pages: 448 pages, 0. BIC Classification: DNF; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 26. Weight in Grams: 692.
Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's novelists, biographers, critics, and even political economists. In A Bloomsbury Group Reader Professor Rosenbaum offers a representative selection of such writings by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and Vanessa Bell. His focus in this selection is not upon the lives of the Group but upon what finally must justify our interest in ... Read more Show Less
Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's novelists, biographers, critics, and even political economists. In A Bloomsbury Group Reader Professor Rosenbaum offers a representative selection of such writings by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and Vanessa Bell. His focus in this selection is not upon the lives of the Group but upon what finally must justify our interest in ... Read more Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Number of Pages
444
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9780631190592
SKU
V9780631190592
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About S. P. Rosenbaum
S. P. Rosenbaum is the author of Victorian Bloomsbury and Edwardian Bloomsbury - the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group. He is the editor of The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary, and Criticism and Virginia Woolf's Women and Fiction: The Manuscript Versions of A Room of One's Own (Blackwell, 1991).
Reviews for A Bloomsbury Group Reader
"How I wish that I had had this book in spring semester of 1968 when I taught a course on the Bloomsbury Group at Creighton University in Omaha or may times since then when I've taught seminars on Virginia Woolf at Doane." Evelyn Harris Haller, Doane College "In this stunning new collection, S. P. Rosenbaum has given us a rich ... Read more