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082	0	0	_a823.912 _223 _bWOB 2011
100	1		_aWolfe, Jesse, _d1970-
245	1	0	_aBloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy / _cJesse Wolfe.
260			_aCambridge ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2011, ©2011.
300			_aviii, 264 pages ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 240-257) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 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.
520			_a"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"--
520			_a"Popular and scholarly interests in Bloomsbury have been robust in recent years, with film adaptations of Virginia Woolf's and E. M. Forster's novels, homages by Michael Cunningham and Zadie Smith, biographies of several group members, critical examinations of its literary and philosophical importance, and studies of its role in the history of liberalism, feminism, pacifism, gay liberation, and other aspects of culture and politics. This interest suggests that Bloomsbury illuminates many dimensions of modern life. The current turn in modernist studies - toward examining modernity (a social phenomenon) as the context for modernism (aesthetic responses to this phenomenon) - also suggests that Bloomsbury deserves a central role in the story of literary modernism"--
590			_aMd. Jahangir Alam
650		0	_aEnglish fiction _y20th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aIntimacy (Psychology) in literature.
650		0	_aBloomsbury group.
650		0	_aIntimacy (Psychology)
650		0	_aModernism (Literature) _zGreat Britain.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zGreat Britain _xHistory _y20th century
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh _2bisacsh.
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010046600-b.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010046600-d.html
856	4	1	_3Table of contents only _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1101/2010046600-t.html
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