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This title 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.

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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that Europe "might really be on the brink of becoming civilized," as Leonard Woolf put it. For pacifist Bloomsbury, heir to Europe's unfinished Enlightenment project of human rights, democratic self-governance, and world peace-and, in E. M. Forster's words, "the only genuine movement in English civilization"- the 1914 "civil war" exposed barbarities within Europe: belligerent nationalisms, rapacious racialized economic imperialism, oppressive class and sex/gender systems, a tragic and unnecessary war that mobilized sixty-five million and left thirty-seven million casualties. An avant-garde in the twentieth-century struggle against the violence within European civilization, Bloomsbury and Woolf contributed richly to interwar debates on Europe's future at a moment when democracy's triumph over fascism and communism was by no means assured. Woolf honed her public voice in dialogue with contemporaries in and beyond Bloomsbury- John Maynard Keynes and Roger Fry to Sigmund Freud (published by the Woolf's 'Hogarth Press), Bertrand Russell, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, Katherine Mansfield, and many others-and her works embody and illuminate the convergence of aesthetics and politics in post-Enlightenment thought. An ambitious history of her writings in relation to important currents in British intellectual life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book explores Virginia Woolf's narrative journey from her first novel, The Voyage Out, through her last, Between the Acts.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Bloomsbury group. --- Civilization, Modern, in literature. --- Experimental fiction, English --- Modernism (Literature) --- Women and literature --- World War, 1914-1918 --- History and criticism. --- History --- Literature and the war. --- 820 "19" WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- 820 "19" WOOLF, VIRGINIA Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999--WOOLF, VIRGINIA --- Literature and the war --- Woolf, Virginia, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Bloomsbury (London, England) --- Intellectual life --- Bloomsberries --- Crepuscolarismo --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- Woolf, Virginia Stephen, --- Stephen, Virginia, --- Ulf, Virzhinii︠a︡, --- Ṿolf, Ṿirg'inyah, --- Vulf, Virdzhinii︠a︡, --- Вулф, Вирджиния, --- וולף, וירג׳יניה --- וולף, וירג׳יניה, --- Stephen, Adeline Virginia, --- Bloomsbury, London --- Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Woolf, Virginia --- Great Britain --- Arts, English --- Authors, English --- English literature --- Philosophy, English --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Literature --- History, Modern --- Bloomsbury group --- Civilization, Modern, in literature --- History and criticism --- Literary criticism --- Writers --- Book --- Cultural movements