Victorian Bloomsbury : Volume 1: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group

'A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury Group ... S P Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as the literary traditions absorbed by this group.' Richard Ellman 'This is more detailed, more considered, more extensive, and therefore far more valuable than anything of the kind we have had before ... required reading for anyone professing a serious interest in Bloomsbury.' Andrew McNellie This first volume of a three-volume study of the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group describes the intellectual, family and Cambridge backgrounds of Bloomsbury as they are reflected in the Group's early or autobiographical works. While many books have been written on the Bloomsbury Group this is the first to study comprehensively the literary history of their interrelated achievements. Professor Rosenbaum has written a wonderful account of the ideas and people who were the early influences on the Group. He sees the modern period not as the age of 'great men', but in a new light, where original ideas about art, women and society. This book will be of interest not only to anyone fascinated by the Bloomsbury Group, but also to students of Woolf or Forster or Keynes or Strachey who need to know the background of those writers Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Intellectual Backgrounds....Pages 21-34 Leslie Stephen....Pages 35-57 Some Victorian Visions....Pages 58-106 Front Matter....Pages 107-107 History and Classics at King’s and Trinity....Pages 109-122 English Literary Lectures, Reading and Essays....Pages 123-137 Modern Reading....Pages 138-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Philosophy and the Cambridge Apostles....Pages 161-175 Dickinson and McTaggart....Pages 176-192 Russell....Pages 193-213 Moore....Pages 214-238 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 Memoirs, Apostle Papers and Other Essays....Pages 241-264 Poems, Plays, Parodies....Pages 265-278 Back Matter....Pages 279-316 A study of the literary history of the interrelated achievements of the Bloomsbury Group. Professor Rosenbaum has written an account of the ideas and people who were the early influences on the Group. He sees the modern period not as the age of 'great men', but in a new light, where original ideas about art, women and society. A subtle and powerful picture of the Bloomsbury group, showing clearly what has been vague-their beginnings in Victorian era, before ""human character changed"" (as Virginia Woolf said). S. P. Rosenbaum is an unparalleled interpreter of the philosophical as well as the literary traditions absorbed by this group. v . 1 . V i c t o r i a n B l o o m s b u r y v . 2 . E d w a r d i a n B l o o m s b u r y . v . 3 . G e o r g i a n B l o o m s b u r y