Julian Bell [[electronic resource] ] : from Bloomsbury to the Spanish Civil War / / Peter Stansky and William Abrahams

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457397103321
• Autore: Stansky Peter <1932->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2012
• ISBN: 0-8047-7792-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (330 p.)
• Classificazione: HM 4850
• Altri autori (Persone): AbrahamsWilliam Miller <1919-1998.>
• Disciplina: 821/.912
• Soggetti: Poets, English - 20th century; Bloomsbury group; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Bloomsbury childhood -- A young apostle -- Searching -- China -- Spain.
• Sommario/riassunto: Julian Bell explores the life of a younger member, and sole poet, of the Bloomsbury Group, the most important community of British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century, which includes Virginia Woolf (Julian's aunt), E. M. Forster, the economist John Maynard Keynes, and the art critic Roger Fry. This biography draws upon the expanding archives on Bloomsbury to present Julian's life more completely and more personally than has been done previously. It is an intense and profound exploration of personal, sexual, intellectual, political, and literary life in England betwee