The Bloomsbury Reform

Old Bloomsbury still survives. If you seek proof
look around Virginia Woolf. The myth of
Bloomsbury can be traced back to the early twentieth
century, and one cannot claim that its influence has
ever completely perished. Bloomsbury was a group of
young men and women who, through their individual
capacities and joint efforts, worked to reform the
British culture which they felt had become rather
moribund. The artists within the group introduced
art of a more abstract nature, and their endeavours
were unsurprisingly tested by harsh criticism.
Concomitantly, the writers of the group, mainly
Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, were facing
their own ordeals as they gallantly attempted to
alter the even more hostile domains of biography
and fiction. The Bloomsbury legacy survives till
this very day, for not only have we inherited their
unparalleled literature and art, their unique
theories, and their many letters and diaries, but we
are, to some extent, heirs to a freer lifestyle that
Bloomsbury itself promoted.

Autorentext

Tiziana Cauchi studied English literature and language at the University of Malta, from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree. Her research interests include Modernist English literature as well as biography. Tiziana Cauchi currently teaches English at St. Monica Secondary School in Gzira, Malta.

Klappentext
'Old Bloomsbury still survives. If you seek proof...look around' - Virginia Woolf. The myth of Bloomsbury can be traced back to the early twentieth century, and one cannot claim that its influence has ever completely perished. Bloomsbury was a group of young men and women who, through their individual capacities and joint efforts, worked to reform the British culture which they felt had become rather moribund. The artists within the group introduced art of a more abstract nature, and their endeavours were unsurprisingly tested by harsh criticism. Concomitantly, the writers of the group, mainly Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, were facing their own ordeals as they gallantly attempted to alter the even more hostile domains of biography and fiction. The Bloomsbury legacy survives till this very day, for not only have we inherited their unparalleled literature and art, their unique theories, and their many letters and diaries, but we are, to some extent, heirs to a freer lifestyle that Bloomsbury itself promoted.