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Overview
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.
Synopsis
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.
Library Journal
The present volume, which traces the literary history of the Bloomsbury Group during the first decade of the 20th century, is a sequel to the author's Victorian Bloomsbury (LJ 10/1/86). Rosenbaum (Emeritus Professor of English, Univ. of Toronto) has selected for analysis key works of fiction or criticism that exemplify Bloomsbury's values, aesthetics, and critical theories. The authors discussed include E.M. Forster, Desmond MacCarthy, Lytton Strachey, and Virginia and Leonard Woolf, with emphasis on the network of relationships that characterized this group of writers. A third volume, Georgian Bloomsbury, is planned. While this work of criticism requires considerable background on the part of the reader, it is essential for English literature collections.-Lesley Jorbin, Cleveland State Univ. Lib.
Editorials
From the Publisher
'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