English 362 - The Bloomsbury Group

This seminar will examine the Bloomsbury Group,;the most important British cultural formation in;the first half of the twentieth-century. The;group included artists, art critics, biographers,;economists, literary critics, novelists,;philosophers and translators such as Vanessa;Bell, E. M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes, George;Moore, Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, and;Virginia Woolf. We will emphasize the ways in;which they sought to dismantle the artistic,;political, and sexual repressions of the;Victorian period and to replace them with new;forms of art, community, and society.

Prereq: 8 credits in the English department.