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A war of individuals : Bloomsbury attitudes to the Great War / Jonathan Atkin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Atkin, Jonathan, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bloomsbury group.
- World War, 1914-1918--Public opinion.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Public opinion.
- World War, 1914-1918--Literature and the war.
- Physical Description:
- 250 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2002.
- Summary:
- This book draws together for the very first time examples of the "aesthetic pacifism" practiced during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon, and Bertrand Russell. In addition, the book outlines the stories of those less well-known who shared the mindset of the Bloomsbury Group and those around them when it came to facing the first "total war."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [233]-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0719060702
- 0719060710
- OCLC:
- 59467453
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