Book contents
- A History of the Bloomsbury Group
- A History of the Bloomsbury Group
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetic Bloomsbury
- Part II Global Bloomsbury
- Part III Intimate Bloomsbury
- Part IV Public Bloomsbury
- Chapter 19 Bloomsbury and Economics
- Chapter 20 Bloomsbury and the Meanings of Labor
- Chapter 21 The Bloomsbury Bookshop
- Chapter 22 Bloomsbury, Education, and Meritocracy
- Chapter 23 Bloomsbury and Science
- Coda
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 19 - Bloomsbury and Economics
from Part IV - Public Bloomsbury
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Book contents
- A History of the Bloomsbury Group
- A History of the Bloomsbury Group
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Aesthetic Bloomsbury
- Part II Global Bloomsbury
- Part III Intimate Bloomsbury
- Part IV Public Bloomsbury
- Chapter 19 Bloomsbury and Economics
- Chapter 20 Bloomsbury and the Meanings of Labor
- Chapter 21 The Bloomsbury Bookshop
- Chapter 22 Bloomsbury, Education, and Meritocracy
- Chapter 23 Bloomsbury and Science
- Coda
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the distinctive hardheadedness of the Bloomsbury group’s famous devotion to the life of the mind. While Bloomsbury is virtually synonymous with the prizing of aesthetic appreciation, emotional intensity, and intellectual reflection, many of the group’s members were equally concerned with the inextricability of such rarefied states from very material sources of maintenance, support, and security. The chapter foregrounds the inseparable connection between economics and aesthetics in the thought and practice of the Bloomsbury group, identifying a concern with this connection as one of the key preoccupations stemming from the influence of G. E. Moore’s philosophy, and tracing its significance in a range of economic, artistic and literary works.
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- A History of the Bloomsbury Group , pp. 317 - 333Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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