Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Theory
Cover of the book Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy by Jesse Wolfe, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Jesse Wolfe ISBN: 9781139209656
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: June 16, 2011
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Jesse Wolfe
ISBN: 9781139209656
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: June 16, 2011
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Global Deforestation by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Classified by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Stakeholders Matter by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Media Ethics and Global Justice in the Digital Age by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book The Diatoms by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Popular Movements in Autocracies by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Popular Culture in the Ancient World by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Hegel and Modern Society by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Portraits of 'the Whiteman' by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Vesalius: The China Root Epistle by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Measuring the Universe by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Extremely Violent Societies by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to Verdi by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book Handbook of CTG Interpretation by Jesse Wolfe
Cover of the book A Richer, Brighter Vision for American High Schools by Jesse Wolfe
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy