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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Madelyn Detloff and I are proud to announce the publication of <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i>, a collection of classic ground-breaking essays together with brand spanking new essays written by Woolf scholars and Bloomsbury scholars well-known for their expertise. Published by Edinburgh University Press and edited by Madelyn Detloff and myself (Brenda Helt), the collection includes the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Part 1: Ground-Breaking Essays:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Introduction to Carolyn Heilbrun’s ‘The Bloomsbury Group’, 1968, by Brenda R. Silver<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Bloomsbury Group, by Carolyn Heilbrun<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>‘Bloomsbury Bashing’ Revisited<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Bloomsbury Bashing: </span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Homophobia and the Politics of Criticism in the Eighties, by Christopher Reed<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>‘Camp Sites’ Revisited<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Camp Sites: Forster and the Biographies of Queer Bloomsbury, by George Piggford<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>‘Redecorating the International Economy’ Revisited<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Redecorating the International Economy: Keynes, Grant, and the Queering of Bretton Woods [abridged], by Bill Maurer<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Passionate Debates on ‘Odious Subjects’: Bisexuality and Woolf’s Opposition to Theories of Androgyny and Sexual Identity</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> [abridged], by Brenda Helt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Part 2: New Essays<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Bloomsbury Love Triangle, by Regina Marler<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Duncan Grant and Charleston’s Queer Arcadia, by Darren Clarke<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Nailed: Lytton Strachey’s Jesus Camp, by Todd Avery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>[T]here were so many things I wanted to do & didn’t’: The Queer Potential of Carrington’s Life and Art, by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Making Sense of Wittgenstein’s Bloomsbury and Bloomsbury’s Wittgenstein, by Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr. and Madelyn Detloff </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Deviant Desires and the Queering of Leonard Woolf, by Elyse Blankley<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Clive Bell, ‘a fathead and a voluptuary’: Conscientious Objection and British Masculinity, by Mark Hussey<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>‘I didn’t know there could be such writing’: The Aesthetic Intimacy of E. M. Forster and T. E. Lawrence, by Jodie Medd<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Virginia Woolf’s Queer Time and Place: Wartime London and a World Aslant, by Kimberly Engdahl Coates<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The book can now be ordered in the U.S. and Canada through Oxford University Press at <a href="https://global.oup.com/academic/search?q=queer+bloomsbury&cc=us&lang=en">https://global.oup.com/academic/search?q=queer+bloomsbury&cc=us&lang=en</a> (Paperback limited time special price: $27.97, use code AAFLYG6.) Or at Amazon.com and the usual online sources. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>In the U.K. and the rest of the world, <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i> can be ordered through Edinburgh University Press at <a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=queer+bloomsbury">https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=queer+bloomsbury</a> (Paperback limited time special price: </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>£</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>19.99, use code New20.) Or at Amazon.co.uk and the like. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The tote bag: What began as a bit of a marketing joke apparently garnered admirers at the Woolf conference (I’m told), and so I am making <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i> the tote bag available to all and sundry at <a href="http://pixels.com/products/queer-bloomsbury-full-cover-brenda-helt-tote-bag-16-16.html">http://pixels.com/products/queer-bloomsbury-full-cover-brenda-helt-tote-bag-16-16.html</a> . This can also be accessed via the main menu of my personal webpage (<a href="http://www.brendahelt.com">www.brendahelt.com</a>). Proceeds will go to </span><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>The Trevor Project, a national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people ages 13-24. Hilariously, at the same site you can order <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i> the shower curtain or <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i> the iPhone case—as I said, this began as a joke. The tote bag, however, is actually pretty cool. So is the book, if I do say so myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Very best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Brenda (and Madelyn)</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Brenda Helt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Co-editor <i>Queer Bloomsbury</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-queer-bloomsbury.html</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>Fine artist<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.brendahelt.com/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'>http://www.brendahelt.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'> <span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>