Queer Bloomsbury / Edited by Brenda Helt and Madelyn Detloff.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Helt, Brenda, editor.

Detloff, Madelyn, 1965- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bloomsbury group.

Homosexuality in literature.

Sexual orientation in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

regular print

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

The first to bring together contemporary and classic writings on queer Bloomsbury, this collection presents 1 5 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 recognised Bloomsbury scholars, five important ground-breaking essays are republished here, including Carolyn Heilbrun's germinal 1968 essay on the sexual dissidence of tire 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part 1 Ground-Breaking Essays

Introduction to Carolyn Heilbrun's 'The Bloomsbury Group', 1968 / Brenda R. Silver Silver, Brenda R. 15

The Bloomsbury Group / Carolyn G. Heilbrun Heilbrun, Carolyn G. 23

Bloomsbury Bashing: Homophobia and the Politics of Criticism in the Eighties / Christopher Reed Reed, Christopher 36

Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury / George Piggford Piggford, George 64

Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant and the Queering of Brerton Woods / Bill Maurer Maurer, Bill 89

Passionate Debates on 'Odious Subjects': Bisexuality and Woolf's Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity / Brenda Helt Helt, Brenda 114

Part 2 New Essays

The Bloomsbury Love Triangle / Regina Marler Marler, Regina 135

Duncan Grant and Charleston's Queer Arcadia / Darren Clarke Clarke, Darren 152

Nailed: Lytton Strachey's Jesus Camp / Todd Avery Avery, Todd 172

'[T]here were so many things I wanted to do & didn't': The Queer Potential of Carrington's life and Art / Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook 189

Making Sense of Wittgenstein's Bloomsbury and Bloomsbury's Wittgenstein / Gailc Pohlhaus, Jr Jr, Gailc Pohlhaus,, Madelyn Detloff Detloff, Madelyn 210

Deviant Desires and the Queering of Leonard Woolf / Elyse Blankley Blankley, Elyse 223

Clive Bell, 'a fathead and a voluptuary': Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity / Mark Hussey Hussey, Mark 240

'I didn't know there could be such writing': The Aesthetic Intimacy of E. M. Forster and T. E. Lawrence / Jodie Medd Medd, Jodie 258

Virginia Woolf's Queer Time and Place: Wartime London and a World Aslant / Kimberly Engdahl Coates Coates, Kimberly Engdahl 276.

ISBN:

9781474401708

1474401708

OCLC:

933722101