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Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury

Waugh, Patricia

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Corinne Saunders
Editor

Jane Macnaughton
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David Fuller
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Abstract

The question, ‘what was Bloomsbury’, elicits two responses: a catalogue of the people, the place, the moment; but more compelling, and more elusive, the evocation of an ethos. Bloomsbury is seen to have rein-vented beauty and the beautiful soul. If there is a single paragraph that has served as touchstone for this perception, it is G. E. Moore’s definitive peroration in the final chapter of Principia Ethica (1903): By far the most valuable things we can know or can imagine, are certain states of consciousness, which may be roughly described as the pleasures of human intercourse and the enjoyment of beautiful objects.1

Citation

Waugh, P. (2015). Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury. In C. Saunders, J. Macnaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The recovery of beauty : arts, culture, medicine (108-128). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_7

Acceptance Date Jan 31, 2015
Publication Date Jan 1, 2015
Deposit Date Jan 24, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 108-128
Book Title The recovery of beauty : arts, culture, medicine.
ISBN 9781349577798
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_7

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Waugh, Patricia (2015). Beauty Rewrites Literary History: Revisiting the Myth of Bloomsbury. In The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine. Saunders, Corinne, Macnaughton, Jane & Fuller, David Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 108-128 reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137426734





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