List of Contributors Introduction Derek Ryan (University of Kent, UK) and Stephen Ross (University of Victoria, Canada) 1. Bloomsbury and Sexuality Todd Avery (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA) Case Study: Edward Carpenter's Radical Integrity and its Influence on E. M. Forster Jesse Wolfe (California State University, Stanislaus, USA) 2. Bloomsbury and the Arts Maggie Humm (University of East London, UK) Case Study: Clive Bell and the Legacies of Significant Form Mark Hussey (Pace University, USA) 3. Bloomsbury and Empire Sonita Sarker (Macalester College, USA) Case Study: Race, Empire and Performative Activism in Late Edwardian Bloomsbury Anna Snaith (King's College London, UK) 4. Bloomsbury and Feminism Lauren Elkin (Independent scholar) Case Study: Bloomsury, the Hogarth Press and Feminist Organisations Claire Battershill (Simon Fraser University, Canada) 5. Bloomsbury and Philosophy Benjamin Hagen (University of South Dakota, USA) Case Study: Bloomsbury, Mulk Raj Anand and Henri Bergson Laci Mattison (Florida Gulf Coast University, USA) 6. Bloomsbury and Class Kathryn Simpson (Independent scholar) Case Study: Bloomsbury's Rural Cross-Class Encounters Clara Jones (King's College London, UK) 7. Bloomsbury and Jewishness Susan Wegener (Purdue University, USA) Case Study: Leonard Woolf and John Maynard Keynes: Palestine, Zionism and the State of Israel Steven Putzel (Pennsylvania State University, Wilkes-Barre, USA) 8. Bloomsbury and Nature Peter Adkins (University of Kent, UK) Case Study: Eating Animals and the Aesthetics of Meat in Virginia Woolf's The Years Vicki Tromanhauser (State University of New York, New Paltz, USA) 9. Bloomsbury and Politics David Ayers (University of Kent, UK) Case Study: From Bolshevism to Bloomsbury: The Garnett Translations and Russian Politics in England Michaela Bronstein (Stanford University, USA) 10. Bloomsbury and War J. Ashley Foster (California State University, Fresno, USA) Case Study: Bloomsbury's Pacifist Aesthetics: Woolf, Keynes, Rodker Jane Goldman (University of Glasgow, UK) Index

Bloomsbury is everywhere: books, films, plays, even anime. Indeed, has any other group of friends had a more potent influence on the 20th-century ethos? Ryan (Univ. of Kent, UK) and Ross (Univ. of Victoria, Canada) demonstrate that the influence extends into the 21st century too, in essays covering sexuality, the arts, empire, feminism, philosophy, class, Jewishness, nature, politics, and war. Each essay is followed by a case study. Some essays (those on sexuality, class, the arts, and philosophy) reiterate well-established contentions; others force a new reckoning of the interconnectedness between the members and the pervasiveness, both positive and negative, of the group’s influence. The essays in this latter group are provocative and sometimes antagonistic, so they will be terrifically exciting for Bloomsbury scholars. Most fascinating are the essays devoted to the men of Bloomsbury, who were often relegated to the darkness in relation to Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. This collection reminds one that the reverberations of Bloomsbury are still felt in every aspect of modern society, from the arts (including literature, painting, textiles, pottery, and museum acquisitions) to politics and economics, and even social policy. Summing Up: Essential.

With chapters written by the world's leading scholars in their fields, this is a comprehensive survey of current and future scholarship on the Bloomsbury Group – from Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster to John Maynard Keynes and Clive and Vanessa Bell.

Bloomsbury Handbooks is a series of single-volume reference works which map the parameters of a discipline or sub-discipline and present the 'state-of-the-art' in terms of research. Each Handbook offers a systematic and structured range of specially commissioned essays reflecting on the history, methodologies, research methods, current debates and future of a particular field of research. Bloomsbury Handbooks provide researchers and graduate students with both cutting-edge perspectives on perennial questions and authoritative overviews of the history of research.