Queer Bloomsbury (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Helt, Brenda S.; Detloff, Madelyn

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The first collection to bring together contemporary and classic writings on queer BloomsburyThis anthology presents important early essays that laid the foundation for queer studies of the Bloomsbury Group together with new essays that build upon this foundation to provide ground-breaking work on Bloomsbury figures and cultural achievements. As a whole, Queer Bloomsbury stands alone as a wide-ranging and critical resource that traces the cultural, ideological, and aesthetic facets of Bloomsbury's development as a queer intellectual and aesthetic subculture. Key FeaturesFifteen wide-ranging readings that trace the cultural, ideological, and aesthetic facets of Bloomsbury's development as a queer subcultureIncludes Carolyn Heilbrun's influential essay on the sexual dissidence of the Bloomsbury Group with an introduction by scholar Brenda SilverMoves beyond LGBT studies of Bloomsbury to provide substantive information on the queer philosophical and ethical underpinnings of the Bloomsbury GroupRarely seen reproductions of Duncan Grant's work from the Charleston archives as well as Dora Carrington's work from archives and a private collection

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474401715
• Artikelnr.: 50217586

Autorenporträt

Brenda Helt is an Independent Scholar with a PhD in English and Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota. She has taught courses in English and Queer Studies at The Ohio State University, the University of Minnesota, and Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN. Her recent publications include an award-winning essay on Woolf in Twentieth Century Literature and an essay in The Cambridge Companion to H.D. She co-edited (with Madelyn Detloff) a special issue of the Virginia Woolf Miscellany titled "Queering Woolf." She is now a full-time fine artist in San Diego, and painted the cover for Queer Bloomsbury. Madelyn Detloff is Associate Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University. She is author of The Value of Woolf (Cambridge UP), The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge UP), and several essays on queer and feminist theory, modernism, and feminist studies. She is the former Vice President of the International Virginia Woolf Society and former co-chair of the H.D. International Society.

Inhaltsangabe

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.