Queer Bloomsbury: An Anthology

ISBN-13: 9781474401692 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 288 str.

Brenda S. Helt;Madelyn Detloff

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This anthology presents fifteen wide-ranging readings that trace the cultural, ideological and aesthetic facets of the Bloomsbury Group's development as a queer subculture. In addition to new essays by widely recognized Bloomsbury scholars, five important ground-breaking essays are republished here, including Carolyn Heilbrun's germinal 1968 essay on the sexual dissidence of the Bloomsbury Group and Christopher Reed's influential 1991 essay exposing homophobia among academic scholars writing about the group. Also included are rarely seen reproductions of Duncan Grant's work from the Charleston archives as well as Dora Carrington's work from archives and a private collection. Queer Bloomsbury provides substantive information on the queer philosophical and ethical underpinnings of the Bloomsbury Group.

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Editors’ Introduction, Madelyn Detloff and Brenda Helt; Part 1: Ground-breaking Essays; Introduction to Carolyn Heilbrun’s ‘The Bloomsbury Group’, 1968, Brenda R. Silver; The Bloomsbury Group, Carolyn Heilbrun; ‘Bloomsbury Bashing’ Revisited – Twenty-five Years On; Bloomsbury Bashing: Homophobia and the Politics of Criticism in the Eighties, Christopher Reed; ‘Camp Sites’ Revisited – Eighteen Years On; Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury, George Piggford; ‘Redecorating the International Economy’ Revisited – Seventeen Years On; Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods [abridged], Bill Maurer; Passionate Debates on ‘Odious Subjects’: Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity [abridged], Brenda Helt; Part 2: New Essays; The Bloomsbury Love Triangle, Regina Marler; Duncan Grant and Charleston’s Queer Arcadia, Darren Clarke; Nailed: Lytton Strachey’s Jesus Camp, Todd Avery; [T]here were so many things I wanted to do & didn’t’: The Queer Potential of Carrington’s Life and Art, Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina; Making Sense of Wittgenstein’s Bloomsbury and Bloomsbury’s Wittgenstein, Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. and Madelyn Detloff ; Deviant Desires and the Queering of Leonard Woolf, Elyse Blankley; Clive Bell, ‘a fathead and a voluptuary’: Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity, Mark Hussey; ‘I didn’t know there could be such writing’: The Aesthetic Intimacy of E. M. Forster and T. E. Lawrence, Jodie Medd; Virginia Woolf’s Queer Time and Place: Wartime London and a World Aslant, Kimberly Engdahl Coates.