Edited by Victoria Rosner – An introduction to & new interpretation of Bloomsbury

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 fresh perspectives on the achievements of this remarkable circle of friends.

– Provides the only general introduction to the Bloomsbury Group in print

– Offers a radically new interpretation of Bloomsbury, with an emphasis on politics, both international and sexual

– Brings together many of the major scholars of the Bloomsbury Group

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Victoria Rosner (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Bloomsbury Group

New York, Columbia University, 2014