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“What is a ruin but Time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. It is the body and the blood of ecstasy, religion and love.” Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
“The carnival was petering out in a gloomy banality. Change was imminent in every direction. Why not make a clean sweep of the old life and, escaping to some strange new existence, create a fresh illusion of pleasure?” Compton Mackenzie, Carnival
Queer Bloomsbury is a book in two parts, and as such, evokes two different responses. “Part One: Ground-Breaking Essays” consists of lightly-edited reprints of essays by Carolyn Heilbrun, Christopher Reed, George Piggford, Bill Maurer, and Brenda Helt ordered chronologically from Heilbrun’s 1968 “The Bloomsbury Group” to Helt’s 2010 “Passionate Debates on ‘Odious Subjects.’”
Volume 23, Number 1, January 2016
Special Section: Camp Modernism
Introduction by Marsha Bryant and Douglas Mao
The Sexual Objects of “Parodistic” Camp
Scott Herring
Camp, Modernism, and Charles Henri Ford
Alexander Howard