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Begun as a "joke," Orlando is Virginia Woolf's fantastical
biography of a poet who first appears as a sixteen-year-old boy at
the court of Elizabeth I, and is left at the novel's end a married
woman in the year 1928. Part love letter to Vita Sackville-West,
part exploration of the art of biography, Orlando is one of Woolf's
most popular and entertaining works. This new annotated edition
will deepen readers' understanding of Woolf's brilliant creation.
Annotated and with an introduction by Maria DiBattista
One of Woolf's most experimental novels, The Waves presents six
characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood
into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a
glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing
of events but to celebrate the connection between its various
individual parts.
Clive Bell was a pivotal member of the Bloomsbury Group. His
marriage to Vanessa Bell and his, at times tempestuous, relations
with his sister-in-law Virginia Woolf form important strands in the
cultural history of modernism. A tireless champion of modernist
art, a committed pacifist and conscientious objector, Bell produced
a huge body of correspondence with many of the leading artistic and
political figures of his time. His lively, witty, highly
opinionated letters are a window into the turbulence of the early
twentieth century, populated by friends and acquaintances including
T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau,
as well as his Bloomsbury set, Desmond MacCarthy, Leonard and
Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and Vanessa
Bell. Arranged in eight categories - Bloomsbury Circles; Virginia;
War; Arts and Letters; To the Editor; Francophile; Travels; Love,
Gossip, Home - this selection emphasises Bell's enormously varied
life and interests. Born in the reign of Queen Victoria and living
long enough to have been able to hear the Beatles on the radio,
these letters demonstrate that Bell's appetite for art, for love
and for peace never flagged.
'Amusing, charming, stimulating, urbane' - THE TIMES 'Revelatory' -
GUARDIAN 'Restores Clive Bell vividly to life' - Lucasta Miller
______________ Clive Bell is perhaps better known today for being a
Bloomsbury socialite and the husband of artist Vanessa Bell, sister
to Virginia Woolf. Yet Bell was a highly important figure in his
own right: an internationally renowned art critic who defended
daring new forms of expression at a time when Britain was closed
off to all things foreign. His groundbreaking book Art brazenly
subverted the narratives of art history and cemented his status as
the great interpreter of modern art. Bell was also an ardent
pacifist and a touchstone for the Wildean values of individual
freedoms, and his is a story that leads us into an extraordinary
world of intertwined lives, loves and sexualities. For decades,
Bell has been an obscure figure, refracted through the wealth of
writing on Bloomsbury, but here Mark Hussey brings him to the fore,
drawing on personal letters, archives and Bell's own extensive
writing. Complete with a cast of famous characters, including
Lytton Strachey, T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Pablo Picasso
and Jean Cocteau, Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism is a
fascinating portrait of a man who became one of the pioneering
voices in art of his era. Reclaiming Bell's stature among the
makers of modernism, Hussey has given us a biography to muse and
marvel over - a snapshot of a time and of a man who revelled in and
encouraged the shock of the new. 'A book of real substance written
with style and panache, copious fresh information and many
insights' - Julian Bell
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The author received three separate requests for a gift of one
guinea-one for a women's college building fund, one for a society
promoting the employment of professional women, and one to help
prevent war and "protect culture, and intellectual liberty." This
book is a threefold answer to these requests-and a statement of
feminine purpose.
Clive Bell was a pivotal member of the Bloomsbury Group. His
marriage to Vanessa Bell and his, at times tempestuous, relations
with his sister-in-law Virginia Woolf form important strands in the
cultural history of modernism. A tireless champion of modernist
art, a committed pacifist and conscientious objector, Bell produced
a huge body of correspondence with many of the leading artistic and
political figures of his time. His lively, witty, highly
opinionated letters are a window into the turbulence of the early
twentieth century, populated by friends and acquaintances including
T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau,
as well as his Bloomsbury set, Desmond MacCarthy, Leonard and
Virginia Woolf, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry and Vanessa
Bell. Arranged in eight categories - Bloomsbury Circles; Virginia;
War; Arts and Letters; To the Editor; Francophile; Travels; Love,
Gossip, Home - this selection emphasises Bell's enormously varied
life and interests. Born in the reign of Queen Victoria and living
long enough to have been able to hear the Beatles on the radio,
these letters demonstrate that Bell's appetite for art, for love
and for peace never flagged.
The print culture of the early twentieth century has become a major
area of interest in contemporary Modernist Studies. Modernism's
Print Cultures surveys the explosion of scholarship in this field
and provides an incisive, well-informed guide for students and
scholars alike. Surveying the key critical work of recent decades,
the book explores such topics as: - Periodical publishing - from
'little magazines' such as Rhythm to glossy publications such as
Vanity Fair - The material aspects of early twentieth-century
publishing - small presses, typography, illustration and book
design - The circulation of modernist print artefacts through the
book trade, libraries, book clubs and cafes - Educational and
political print initiatives Including accounts of archival material
available online, targeted lists of key further reading and a
survey of new trends in the field, this is an essential guide to an
important area in the study of modernist literature.
Volume 19 includes a special focus on Woolf and Jews, with articles
by Phyllis Lassner & Mia Spiro, and by Leena Kore Schroder, as
well as a "Forum" discussion of the issue among nine scholars. In
addition are articles on Virginia Woolf's research for Leonard's
Empire & Commerce in Africa (Michele Barrett), anarchism in
Mrs. Dalloway (John McGuigan), formalism (Jamie Horrocks), wedding
rituals (Diane Gillespie), and the intertextuality of Rachel Cusk
and Virginia Woolf (Monica Latham). Reviews of twenty-four new
books, and an updated Guide to Library Special Collections complete
this volume.
Articles and reviews of recent books on Virginia Woolf.
Seven new articles on Virginia Woolf, including archival material
from King's College London; book reviews.
In this volume, Isaac Gewirtz, curator of the New York Public
Library's Berg Collection, explores significant revisions that
Woolf made at the proof stage of A Room of One's Own, and includes
an appendix listing every variant between the recently-acquired
proof (long thought to have been lost) and the first edition of
this feminist classic. Elizabeth Wright's "Bloomsbury at Play"
mines several archives to reveal how Bloomsbury and its friends
entertained (and teased) one another at home.
This volume compiles the latest in scholarship and reviews on
Virginia Woolf, the major 20th-century modernist author.
Woolf's first distinctly modernist novel follows an aloof yet
beloved young man from his childhood through his student days to
his too-early death during World War I. Annotated and with an
introduction by Vara Neverow
In Woolf's final novel, villagers present their annual pageant,
made up of scenes from the history of England, at a house in the
heart of the country as personal dramas simmer and World War II
looms. Annotated and with an introduction by Melba Cuddy-Keane
"The Years "is a sweeping tale of three generations of the Pargiter
family, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, in the thick
of life's cycles of birth, death, and the search for a pattern in
all the chaos. Annotated and with an introduction by Eleanor McNees
Scholarly articles and reviews on Virginia Woolf, twentieth century
literary modernism.
Newly expanded to include more articles and features, this volume
includes transcribed correspondence between Woolf and the
librarians of the Women's Service Library, six new articles, and
reviews of a dozen new books.
This literary volume contains various reviews of new books and
critical essays for students.
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