A war of individuals: Bloomsbury attitudes to the Great War
- ISBN-10
- 1847795412
- ISBN-13
- 9781847795410
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-19
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Author
- Jonathan Atkin
Description
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book draws together for the very first time examples of the 'aesthetic pacifism' practised during the Great War by such celebrated individuals as Virginia Woolf, Siegfried Sassoon and Bertrand Russell. In addition, the book outlines the stories of those less well-known who shared the mind-set of the Bloomsbury Group when it came to facing the first 'total war'. The research for this study took five years, gathering evidence from all the major archives in Great Britain and abroad. This is the first time that such wide-ranging evidence has been placed together in order to paint a complete picture of this fascinating form of anti-war expression.
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