This text is an account of Woolf's engagement with the esteemed trinity of thinkers - Moore, Russell and Fry. It revises the epistemology of modernism, reconceiving the relationship between realism and formalism.
"Virginia Woolf identified the influence on her work of 'the Cambridge Apostles', the philosophical society which counted G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell and much of male Bloomsbury among its members, as one more 'capable of description' than 'the influence of my mother'. In this …
This text is an account of Woolf's engagement with the esteemed trinity of thinkers - Moore, Russell and Fry. It revises the epistemology of modernism, reconceiving the relationship between realism and formalism.
"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…