Edwardian Bloomsbury : The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group Volume 2

'This is the second volume of a formidable enterprise, and part of a series of publications by the same author that may entitle him to the position as the leading scholar of the Bloomsbury Group...Rosenbaum has managed to write with freshness and insight about Forster's novels, no matter how much they have been analyzed before...The next volume will deal with the effect of that exhibition upon the Group's writing and much more, I am sure, of its early literary history. The work is eagerly awaited.' - Peter Stanksy, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 Edwardian Bloomsbury is a continuation of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group begun with Victorian Bloomsbury, but it can also be read independently as an account of the Group's interrelated writings during the first decade of the twentieth century. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-8 Independent Reviewers....Pages 9-29 E. M. Forster’s Earlier Short Writings....Pages 30-60 The First Book of Bloomsbury....Pages 61-75 E. M. Forster’s First Novel....Pages 76-96 Desmond MacCarthy at the Court Theatre....Pages 97-116 Lytton Strachey and the Prose of Empire....Pages 117-139 Virginia Woolf: Beginnings....Pages 140-193 Roger Fry and the Early Aesthetics of Bloomsbury....Pages 194-214 Front Matter....Pages 215-215 Introduction....Pages 217-225 E. M. Forster’s Refutation of Idealism....Pages 226-258 Desmond MacCarthy and the New Quarterly, Clive Bell and the Athenaeum....Pages 259-284 Lytton Strachey and the Spectator....Pages 285-310 E. M. Forster: Rooms and Views....Pages 311-338 Virginia Woolf and the Proper Writing of Lives....Pages 339-390 Leonard Woolf’s Ceylon Writings....Pages 391-437 E. M. Forster: Ends and Means....Pages 438-488 Back Matter....Pages 489-559 "This is the second volume of a formidable enterprise, and part of a series of publications by the same author that may entitle him to the position as the leading scholar of the Bloomsbury Group ... Rosenbaum has managed to write with freshness and insight about Forster's novels, no matter how much they have been analyzed before ... The next volume will deal with the effect of that exhibition upon the Group's writing and much more, I am sure, of its early literary history. The work is eagerly awaited."--Peter Stanksy, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920 Edwardian Bloomsbury is a continuation of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group begun with Victorian Bloomsbury, but it can also be read independently as an account of the Group's interrelated writings during the first decade of the twentieth century