"Bloomsbury on the Mediterranean," is how Vanessa Bell described France in a letter to her sister, Virginia Woolf. Remarking on the vivifying effect of Cassis, Woolf herself said, "I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim.... Complete heaven, I think it." Yet until now there has never been a book that focused on the profound influence of France on the Bloomsbury group. In Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends, Mary Ann Caws and Sarah Bird Wright reveal the crucial importance of the Bloomsbury group's frequent sojourns to France, the artists and writers they met there, and the liberating effect of the country itself. Drawing upon many previously unpublished letters, memoirs, and photographs, the book illuminates the artistic development of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, David Garnett, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, and others. The authors cover all aspects of the Bloomsbury experience in France, from the specific influence of French painting on the work of Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, and Vanessa Bell, to the heady atmosphere of the medieval Cistercian Abbaye de Pontigny, the celebrated meeting place of French intellectuals where Lytton Strachey, Julian Bell, and Charles Mauron mingled with writers and critics, to the relationships between the Bloomsbury group and Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Andre Gide, Jean Marchand, and many others. Caws and Wright argue that Bloomsbury would have been very different without France, that France was their anti-England, a culture in which their eccentricities and aesthetic experiments could flower. This remarkable study offers a rich new perspective on perhaps the most creative group of artists and friends in the 20th century.

Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends

Biographies & Memoirs

Caws, Mary Ann

Wright, Sarah Bird

Arts & Literature

Oxford University Press

The first book-length critical analysis of its kind, Edith Wharton's Travel Writing is an engaging study of Wharton's travel writing as the embodiment of her connoisseurship. Wright reveals how Wharton enacted a new dialectic of tourism by reconstituting what Blake Nevius calls the 'aesthetic spectra' in her travel texts. Wharton abandoned the examples set by American predecessors such as Washington Irving and Nathaniel Hawthorne, who led the 'artless travelers' of her parents' day to lakes, waterfalls, mountains, and ruins echoing sentimental legends and chose to emulate John Ruskin's precise visual observation and Bernard Berenson's scientific methods of appraisal.

Edith Wharton's Travel Writing: The Making of a Connoisseur

Literature & Fiction

United States

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

This book contains excerpts from each of Wha rton''s 7 works of travel. The collection spans a period of 3 decades, from a time of leisurely travel by chartered steam yacht, through to the horrors of the French landscape durin g World War 1. '

Edith Wharton Abroad: Selected Travel Writings, 1880-1920

WHARTON,EDITH

Robert Hale, Ltd.

A guide to the enigmatic author's life includes synopses of her writings, explores the critical reception of her works, and discusses the important people in her life

Edith Wharton A to Z: The Essential Guide to the Life and Work (Writers A to Z)

Reference

FACTS ON FILE+

Edith Wharton A to Z: The Essential Guide to the Life and Work (The Literary A to Z Series)

Checkmark Books

Alphabetically arranged entries offer information on Hardy's life and work, covering his novels, short stories, poetry, dramatic works, characters, significant events and people, and travels.

Thomas Hardy A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (Facts on File Library of World Literature)

Thomas Hardy A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (Literary A to Z)

This comprehensive reference offers critical entries on Hawthorne's novels, short stories, travel writing, criticism, and other works, as well as portraits of characters, including Hester Prynne and Roger Chillingworth.

Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work (Critical Companion (Hardcover))

History & Criticism

Relates information on the operations of every ferry in the United States, with details on history, fares, schedules, restrictions, local points of interest and tourist recommendations

Ferries of America: A Guide to Adventurous Travel

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Peachtree Pub Ltd

Describes the location, size, access, history, and points of interest on islands off the Southeastern U.S. coast from Maryland to Louisiana

Islands of the South and Southeastern United States

Travel

Peachtree Pub Co Inc

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