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S. P. Rosenbaum. Georgian Bloomsbury: The Early Literary History of the Bloomsbury Group, 1910-1914: Volume 3. New York: Palgrave, 2003. xii + 253 pp. $69.50
WITH Georgian Bloomsbury, S. P. Rosenbaum completes the three-volume literary history begun with Victorian Bloomsbury (1987) and continued with Edwardian Bloomsbury (1994). As Rosenbaum makes clear in the introduction to the book, the title "Georgian" Bloomsbury may seem inappropriate to describe a group of writers and artists usually considered much more radical in literary form than those writers typically associated with the term via Edward Marsh's Georgian Poetry series (1912-1922). Still, understood through the eyes and mind of Virginia Woolf, who transformed the word in "Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown" (1924) from its more traditional use to a concept more closely associated with modernist figures such as Lawrence, Joyce, and Eliot, the term applies. Covering the period 1910-1914 and designed to be read either in conjunction with the other volumes or independently, Rosenbaum's Georgian Bloomsbury mostly succeeds in doing double duty, though at times the volume's ambitious scope weakens some of its more specific theses.
The aim of Georgian Bloomsbury appears to be three-fold: to show how post-impressionist art, initiated by Roger Fry's 8...
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