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100 1 $aStansky, Peter.
245 10 $aOn or about December 1910 :$bearly Bloomsbury and
its intimate world /$cPeter Stansky.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University
Press,$c1996.
300 $aviii, 289 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
440 0 $aStudies in cultural history.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-276)
and index.
520 $aOn or about December 1910 human character
changed, Virginia Woolf remarked, and well she might have.
The company she kept, the Bloomsbury circle, took shape
before the coming of World War I, and would have a lasting
impact on English society and culture after the war. This
book captures the dazzling world of Bloomsbury at the end of
an era, and on the eve of modernism. Peter Stansky depicts
the vanguard of a rising generation seizing its moment. He
shows us Woolf in that fateful year, in the midst of an
emotional breakdown, reaching a turning point with her first
novel, The Voyage Out, and E. M. Forster, already a success,
offering Howards End and acknowledging his passion for
another man. Here are Roger Fry, prominent art critic and
connoisseur, remaking tradition with the epochal exhibition
"Manet and the Post-Impressionists"; Vanessa Bell and Duncan
Grant beginning their most interesting phase as artists;
Lytton Strachey signing the contract for his first book; and
John Maynard Keynes entering a significant new stage in his
illustrious career. Amid the glittering opulence and dismal
poverty, the swirl of Suffragists, anarchists, agitators,
and organizers, Stansky - drawing upon his historical and
literary skills - brings the intimate world of the
Bloomsbury group to life. Their lives, relationships,
writings, and ideas entwine, casting one member after
another in sharp relief. Even their Dreadnought Hoax, a
trick played on the sacred institution of the navy, reveals
their boldness and esprit. The picture Stansky presents,
with all its drama and detail, encompasses the conflicts and
sureties of a changing world of politics, aesthetics, and
character.
600 10 $aWoolf, Virginia,$d1882-1941$xFriends and
associates.
650 0 $aAuthors, English$zEngland$zLondon$xBiography.
650 0 $aIntellectuals$zEngland$zLondon$xBiography.
650 0 $aArtists$zEngland$zLondon$xBiography.
650 0 $aBloomsbury group.
651 0 $aBloomsbury (London, England)$xIntellectual
life$y20th century.
651 0 $aBloomsbury (London, England)$xBiography.
993 01 $evl
980 $aPeter Stansky is the Frances and Charles Field
Professor of History at Stanford University.
980 $aPeter Stansky is the Frances and Charles Field
Professor of History at Stanford University.
997 $boclc
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