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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Leventhal, Fred Marc (1938-....)
Stansky, Peter (1932-....)
Titre(s) : Leonard Woolf [Texte imprimé] : Bloomsbury socialist / Fred Leventhal and Peter Stansky
Édition : First edition
Publication : Oxford (GB) : Oxford university press, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xviii, 213 p.) : portr. ; 21 cm
Collection : Spiritual lives
Lien à la collection : Spiritual lives
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Leonard Woolf: Bloomsbury Socialist is an invaluable biography of an important if
somewhat neglected figure in British cultural and political life, whose significance
has been overshadowed by that of his wife, Virginia Woolf. His vital role in her life
and career is a central aspect of this incisive study. Born to a prosperous middle-class
Jewish family, he was profoundly affected by the early death of his father, a prominent
barrister and QC, which left his family in reduced economic circumstances. Fred Leventhal
and Peter Stansky expertly reveal that, despite his youthful loss of religious faith,
being Jewish was as crucial in shaping Woolf's ideas as the Hellenism he imbibed at
St Paul's and Trinity College, Cambridge. As an undergraduate member of the0celebrated
elite Apostles-along with his close friends, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes-he
played a formative role in what later became the Bloomsbury Group. He subsequently
spent seven years as a colonial servant in Ceylon, the background to his powerful
novel, The Village in the Jungle. Within a year of his return to England in 1911 he
married Virginia Stephen, and in 1917 they founded the Hogarth Press, an innovative
and commercially successful publishing house. In the0course of his long life he wrote
prolifically on international relations, notably on the creation of the League of
Nations, on socialism, and on imperial policy, particularly in Africa. Throughout
this authoritative study, Leventhal and Stansky illuminate the life, scope, and thought
of this seminal figure in twentieth-century British society
Sujet(s) : Woolf, Leonard (1880-1969) -- Pensée politique et sociale
Bloomsbury group
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780198814146. - ISBN 0198814143 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45815811t
Notice n° :
FRBNF45815811
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