04039nam a2200385 i 4500 31298 BD-DhAAL 20211121102805.0 160924t20112011enk b 001 0 eng 37761 37761 2010046600 9781107006041 DLC eng DLC rda DLC BD-DhAAL PR888.I64 W65 2011 823.91209353222 Wolfe, Jesse, 1970- 20334 Bloomsbury, modernism, and the reinvention of intimacy / Jesse Wolfe. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2011. viii, 264 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-257) and index. Machine 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. "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"-- "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"-- 31298, 31299 English fiction 20th century History and criticism. 20335 Intimacy (Psychology) in literature. 20336 Bloomsbury group. 20337 Intimacy (Psychology) 20338 Modernism (Literature) Great Britain. 20339 Literature and society Great Britain History 20th century 20340 English literature. 42882 LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh bisacsh. 20341 ddc BK 0 0 ddc 0 823_912935322200000_WOL 0 59590 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2016-08-17 Trim Education 8000.00 1 1 823.9129353222 WOL 3010031298 2017-03-20 2017-03-09 8000.00 2016-08-17 BK 0 0 ddc 0 823_912935322200000_WOL 0 59591 BRACUL BRACUL GEN 2016-08-17 Trim Education 8000.00 0 823.9129353222 WOL 3010031299 2016-08-31 2 8000.00 2016-08-17 BK