Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-32882-2 (ISBN)
Often modernists have been celebrated for their insights into social and civilizational sickness but this book unearths a strain of modernist thought that is more complex and inspiring than this. It discusses how Bloomsbury’s thinkers wrestled with the question “Does intimate life improve?” as sexual egalitarianism expands, as taboos against same-sex love, interracial love, and singlehood wane, and as parents and children relate less formally and often more warmly toward one another. And it discusses how many of today’s major novelists, such as Salman Rushdie, Zadie Smith, Ian McEwan and Rachel Cusk, look to Bloomsbury’s thematic and formal examples when they reformulate this question for our time.
Jesse Wolfe is a Professor of English at California State University Stanislaus, USA and is the author of Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy.
List of tables and appendices
List of images
Acknowledgments
Dedication
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Introduction Historical Despair and Bloomsbury’s Enlightened Modernism
Chapter 1 Do things get better?—
Bloomsbury, Private Lives, and Dreams of Progress
Chapter 2 Woolfian Pessimism: Rachel Cusk’s Vision of Paralysis
Chapter 3 Post-Freudian Skepticism: Atonement in an Age of De-conversion
Chapter 4 Post-Freudian Hope: Regeneration in an Incredulous Milieu
Chapter 5 Forsterian Skepticism: Transcontinental Eros in The Satanic Verses
Chapter 6 Forsterian Optimism: Zadie Smith’s Post(?)-Realist Homage
Chapter 7 Woolfian Optimism: Michael Cunningham’s Modernist Homage Chapter 8 Bloomsburian Horizons: Intimacy in a Polyamorous Light
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Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.04.2022 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-32882-0 / 1350328820 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-32882-2 / 9781350328822 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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