Combining fiction, letters, and poetry, Marler explores the sexual pulse that throbbed throughout the Beat poets' writings in the late 1940s and 1950s, which challenged all sexual and romantic conventions.
Vanessa Bell's distinctive and eloquent letters are not only full of Bloomsbury gossip, but provide an intimate look into the life of a working artist who also had to function as mother, wife, lover, friend, and public figure. She was also Virginia Woolf's sister; her letters shed valuable light on both women, their work, and their lives.
Vanessa Bell's distinctive and eloquent letters are not only full of Bloomsbury gossip, but provide an intimate look into the life of a working artist who also had to function as mother, wife, lover, friend, and public figure. She was also Virginia Woolf's sister; her letters shed valuable light on both women, their work, and their lives.
Perhaps best read as a companion to Woolf's long anti-war essay THREE GUINEAS, this novel employs the conventions of a bildüngsroman to develop the expectations of a promising young man, only to pull them out from under him. Woolf illustrates what happens when a young man is denied the opportunity to excel and is instead sent to war. This book ...
How did a marginal, academic field of inquiry blossom into a mass-market phenomenon? Regina Marler, editor of Vanessa Bell's letters, explores the Bloomsbury phenomenon as well as those writers, publishers, and art dealers who have made a living from it long after its demise.
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