Queer Bloomsbury, cover

Brenda Helt is an Independent Scholar and Fine Artist with a PhD in English and Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota. Her recent publications include an award-winning essay on Woolf in Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) and a chapter in The Cambridge Companion to H.D. (2012). Madelyn Detloff is Associate Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Miami University in Ohio. She is author of The Persistence of Modernism: Loss and Mourning in the Twentieth Century (2009) and The Value of Woolf (2016). Cover image: Brenda Helt with Emily Helt (www.brendahelt.com) Cover design: Stuart Dalziel

Edited by Helt and Detloff

The first to bring together contemporary and classic writings on queer Bloomsbury, this collection presents 15 wide-ranging readings that trace the cultural, ideological and aesthetic facets of the Bloomsbury Group’s development as a queer subculture. In addition to new essays by widely recognised Bloomsbury scholars, five important ground-breaking essays are republished here, including Carolyn Heilbrun’s germinal 1968 essay on the sexual dissidence of the Bloomsbury Group and Christopher Reed’s influential 1991 essay exposing homophobia among academic scholars writing about the group. Also included are rarely seen reproductions of Duncan Grant’s work from the Charleston archives as well as Dora Carrington’s work from archives and a private collection. Queer Bloomsbury provides substantive information on the queer philosophical and ethical underpinnings of the Bloomsbury Group.

Queer Bloomsbury

‘This highly readable collection has some surprises for those who think the contours of Bloomsbury’s queerness self-evident. With its significant attention to lives as well as works, the volume shows that if the celebrated coterie affirms some of the pieties that now characterise discourse on queerness, it disrupts many others. The contributors are joyfully united in their admiration for Bloomsbury, yet their accounts are diverse in import and abundant in provocations to further inquiry.’  Douglas Mao, Johns Hopkins University

Queer Bloomsbury Edited by

Brenda Helt and Madelyn Detloff

ISBN 978-1-4744-0169-2

9 781474 401692

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