Georgian Bloomsbury: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group (Georgian Bloomsbury)

Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994). Covering the years between the First Post-Impressionist Exhibition and The First World War, the book describes and analyzes interrelated literary works by Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, and Virginia Woolf. The works considered include fiction, criticism, essays, and polemics as well as autobiography, journalism and literary history that members of the Bloomsbury Group wrote between 1910 and 1914. Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994). Covering the years between the first post-impressionist exhibition and World War I, the book describes and analyzes interrelated literary works by Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf. The works considered include fiction, criticism, essays, and polemics as well as autobiography journalism, and literary history that members of the Bloomsbury Group wrote between 1910 to 1940. The history opens with an account of the Bloomsbury Group's literary post-impressionism, continues with an account of E. M. Forster's pre-war Georgian writings, including Maurice, and then discusses Lytton Strachey's history of French Literature. After a chapter on the Bloomsbury Group's Georgian journalism, the literary history of Old Bloomsbury concludes with a discussion of Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, and Leonard Woolf's last novel, The Wise Virgins Georgian Bloomsbury completes the literary history of Old Bloomsbury that began with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994). Covering the years between the First Post-Impressionist Exhibition and World War I, the book describes and analyzes interrelated literary works by Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, E.M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf, and Virginia Woolf. The works considered include fiction, criticism essays, and polemics as well as autobiography, journalism, and literary history that members of the Bloomsbury Group wrote between 1910 and 1914. The history opens with an account of Bloomsbury's literary post-impressionism, continues with an account of E.M. Forster's pre-war Georgian writings including Maurice and then discusses Lytton Strachey's literary history of French Literature. After a chapter on Bloomsbury's Georgian Journalism the literary history of Old Bloomsbury concludes with a discussion of Virginia Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out, and Leonard Woolf's last novel, The Wise Virgins Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Explanation of References and Abbreviations......Page 9 Preface......Page 12 Introduction......Page 14 1 Literary Post-Impressionism......Page 22 2 The Art of Clive Bell’s Art......Page 50 3 The Arctic Summer of E. M. Forster......Page 75 4 Lytton Strachey’s Literary History......Page 107 5 Georgian Literary Journalism......Page 133 6 Virginia Woolf’s First Novel......Page 161 7 Leonard Woolf’s Last Novel......Page 198 Conclusion......Page 224 Notes......Page 230 Bibliography......Page 243 B......Page 257 D......Page 258 F......Page 259 I......Page 260 M......Page 261 P......Page 262 S......Page 263 V......Page 264 W......Page 265 Z......Page 266 The post-impressionist 'art-quake of 1910', as Desmond MacCarthy called it, transformed more than art in England.