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"In this study of Woolf's relationship to Bloomsbury and the aesthetic and philosophical developments of her time, Ann Banfield subjects that influence to its first full treatment. The theory of knowledge Moore and Russell formulated, Banfield argues, profoundly affected Woolf's conception of reality, as it did Roger Fry's theory of Post-Impressionism, one source for Woolf's transformations of philosophical principles into aesthetic ones. The Phantom Table is a magisterial account of Woolf's engagement with this remarkable trinity of thinkers: Moore, Russell, Fry. It radically revises the…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2007Cambridge University Press · 451 pages · 9780521034036
- Other · English · 2000Cambridge University Press · 433 pages · 9780521773478
Aesthetics, BritishBloomsbury groupBritish AestheticsCambridge Apostles (Society)Great BritainInfluenceKnowledge, Theory of, in literatureModernism (Literature)