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| Genre/Form: | Biographie Biographies Biography biografi |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Julian Bell; Julian Bell; Julian Bell; Julian Bell; Julian (Schriftsteller) Bell |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Peter Stansky; William Miller Abrahams |
| ISBN: | 9780804774130 0804774137 |
| OCLC Number: | 704908480 |
| Description: | xi, 314 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents: | A Bloomsbury childhood -- A young apostle -- Searching -- China -- Spain. |
| Responsibility: | Peter Stansky and William Abrahams. |
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"Peter Stansky's biography gives weight to the argument that Julian's life, though it was short and not as accomplished as others in Bloomsbury, was significant. He was to be reckoned with-not only as an adventurous young man passionate about fighting fascism like many of his generation in the 1930s-but as a corrective to Bloomsbury's narrowness of vision about what values count in a life . . . Stansky astutely, honestly and sympathetically presents a new portrait of Julian Bell, psychologically and emotionally shadowed by his eminent family and their friends in perhaps the most important intellectual circle in twentieth-century England." -- Patricia Laurence "An intergenerational conversation, between the younger and the older Peter Stansky, as well as between Julian Bell and his elders in the Bloomsbury Group. A new Julian Bell emerges-even franker about his physical and emotional needs, even more frustrated by claustrophobic England-which makes more telling and inevitable his spectacular end on the battlefields of Spain. A beautiful, tragic book." -- Peter Mandler "Stansky is also very good at showing Bell resisting as well as being a direct exemplar of Bloomsbury ideas, ideals, and habits, and also as one who breaks from these . . . [Bell] offers an excellent lens on both the Bloomsbury topsoil and the roots below . . . [A] text that affords, in nearly equal measure, instruction, pathos, and pleasure." -- Judith Scherer Herz "The writers do a fine job of excerpting poems, letters, and essays to give a sense of Bell's thinking . . . [Julian Bell is] full of fresh information, [and] is particularly rich." -- Charles Oberndorf "Stansky revisits his and Abraham's earlier work and adds information then unavailable to create a more intimate look at this curious figure." -- V. A. Murrenus Pilmaier "This biography meticulously fleshes out Bell's family relations, aesthetic efforts, and social and political commitments. . . It was a life marked by a redemptive courage, and it was, as Stansky and Abrahams show, a rich life-rich in the living, and rich in the telling." -- Todd Avery "Peter Stansky's revised and expanded biography of Julian Bell is a valuable addition to our knowledge of early twentieth-century English culture. It should be illuminating not just for Bloomsbury enthusiasts but also for those interested in English attitudes toward sexuality, China, and the Spanish Civil War." Read more...
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- Bell, Julian, -- 1908-1937.
- Poets, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
- Bloomsbury group.
- Poets, English.
- Bell, Julian -- 1908-1937
- Spain -- History -- Civil War, 1936-1939 -- Participation, English.
- Bloomsburygruppen.
- Engelska poeter -- 1900-talet -- biografi.
- Bell, Julian (Schriftsteller)
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