{"product_id":"a-bloomsbury-group-reader-isbn-9780631190592","title":"A Bloomsbury Group Reader","description":"Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the short prose works of the Group's novelists, biographers, critics, and even political economists. In \u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e A Bloomsbury Group Reader \u003cd\u003e\u003c\/d\u003e Professor Rosenbaum offers a representative selection of such writings by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and Vanessa Bell. His focus in this selection is not upon the lives of the Group but upon what finally must justify our interest in them: their work, in this instance, as writers.  \u003cb\u003ePart I: Forewords:\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: The Common Reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey: Preface to \u003ci\u003eEminent Victorians\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoger Fry: Introduction to \u003ci\u003eA Sampler of Castille\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: Introduction to \u003ci\u003eCollected Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Stories:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: The Point of It.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard Woolf: Pearls and Swine.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Biographies:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: The Emperor Babur.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey: Madame de Sevigne's Cousin.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesmond MacCarthy: Disraeli.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Julia Margaret Cameron.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard Woolf: Herbert Spencer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes: Mr. Lloyd George.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Essays:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey: A Victorian Critic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesmond MacCarthy: The Post- Impressionists.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoger Fry: Art and Socialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClive Bell: The Artistic Problem.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard Woolf: Fear and Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes: Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Memories of a Working Women's Guild.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: What I Believe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V: Talks:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey: Art and Indecency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoger Fry: Impressionism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJ. M. Keynes: On Reading Books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: English Prose between 1918 and 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI: Reviews:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClive Bell: Ibsen.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey: Mr Hardy's New Poems.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesmond McCarthy: The New St. Bernard.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard Woolf: Freud's \u003ci\u003ePsychopathology of Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forser: The Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Ernest Hemingway.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VII: Travel Writings:\u003c\/b\u003eDesmond MacCarthy: Two Historic Houses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: Cnidus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard Woolf: Politics in Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Street Haunting.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VIII: Autobiographies:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVanessa Bell: Notes on Virginia's Childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey: Lancaster Gate.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard Woolf: Coming to London.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Old Bloomsbury.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesmond MacCarthy: To Desmond MacCarthy aet. 22.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: Three Countries, Clive Bell: Paris in the 'Twenties'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV: Letters:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoger Fry.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLeonard Woolf.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart X: Diaries:\u003c\/b\u003e .\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: Diary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesmond MacCarthy: A Critic's Day-book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLytton Strachey: A Fortnight in France.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: Indian Journal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommonplace Book.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart XI: Afterwords:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRoger Fry: Retrospect.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJohn Maynard Keynes: Concluding Notes on the General Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eE. M. Forster: A View without a Room.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf: The Love of Reading.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"How I wish that I had had this book in spring semester of 1968 when I taught a course on the Bloomsbury Group at Creighton University in Omaha or may times since then when I've taught seminars on Virginia Woolf at Doane.\" \u003ci\u003eEvelyn Harris Haller, Doane College\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"In this stunning new collection, S. P. Rosenbaum has given us a rich selection of the group's own writings, brilliant pieces standing on their own, frequently hard to find, that demonstrate the wide range of topics, personalities, interests, written about with great wit and insight, that make Bloomsbury of such lasting fascination. It would be hard to imagine a better way to become acquainted with the group and for those who know it already to reread some favourite essays and to make new discoveries.\" \u003ci\u003ePeter Stansky, Stanford University\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Will long be a standard anthology, I've no doubt, for both students and general readers.\" \u003ci\u003eEnglish\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Deserves a home in most literature collections.\" \u003ci\u003eBook Review Digest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an excellent selection. As a compendium of the shorter writings of the Bloomsbury Group it could scarcely have been bettered.\"\u003ci\u003eChris Ackerley, Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eS. P. Rosenbaum\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eVictorian Bloomsbury\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEdwardian Bloomsbury\u003c\/i\u003e - the early literary history of the Bloomsbury Group. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary, and Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e and Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eWomen and Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e: The Manuscript Versions of \u003ci\u003eA Room of One's Own\u003c\/i\u003e (Blackwell, 1991).  Because whenever they wrote the members of Bloomsbury tried to write well, there is an abundant variety of illuminating and delightful reading to be found in the shorter prose works of the Group's novelists, biographers, critics, and even political economists. In \u003ci\u003eA Bloomsbury Group Reader\u003c\/i\u003e Professor Rosenbaum offers a representative selection of such writings by Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, Desmond MacCarthy, Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, and Vanessa Bell. His Focus in this selection is not upon the lives of the Group but upon what finally must justify our interest in them: their work, in this instance, as writers. \u003cp\u003eBloomsbury writers particularly enjoyed the modernist mixing of forms, combining fact with fiction, polemics with aesthetics, humour with history. The pieces in this collection have therefore been arranged according to their genre and are complete in themselves, though some are parts of larger works. They pass from the objective to the subjective - from genres in which the writer's presence is least felt in the work to those in which it may be dominant. The sequence from stories, biographies, and essays through reviews, polemics, and talks to travel writings and memoirs is framed by the forewords and afterwords written for some of Bloomsbury's books.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSeveral familiar texts, such as E. M. Forster's 'What I Believe' or Virginia Woolf's 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown', have been included here, but many others are far well known. Virginia Woolf's biography of her great aunt, for example, has not yet been collected. While Desmond MacCarthy's introduction to the First Post-Impressionist Exhibition catalogue and Leonard Woolf's very early review of Freud are believed never to have been previously reprinted.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988596965605,"sku":"NP9780631190592","price":47.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631190592.jpg?v=1761780910","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/a-bloomsbury-group-reader-isbn-9780631190592","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}