The Bloomsbury Group
Thursday, January 29 2009
by Daniel Zola and Frank Stasio
Vanessa Bell, "Virginia Woolf" 1912
Nearly 100 years ago, a collection of artists, authors and intellectuals rebelled against the ideals of Victorian England and came to exemplify a modern appreciation for the arts. The Bloomsbury Group was made up of Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forester, Vanessa Bell, John Maynard Keynes just to name a few. Today, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University showcases "A Room of Their Own: The Bloomsbury Artists in American Collections." Frank Stasio hosts a roundtable discussion of Bloomsbury scholars. His guests are Christopher Reed, an associate professor of English and visual culture at Penn State University; Craufurd Goodwin, a professor of economics at Duke; and Virginia Woolf scholar Mark Hussey, a professor of English at Pace University in New York City.
