Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form after Bloomsbury with Jesse Wolfe

February 6

9am PT/ 12pm ET/ 5pm GMT

Join NACBS to celebrate the publication of Jesse Wolfe’s new book Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History. Jennifer Spitzer will moderate the event.  This event will take place online.

“Exploring how the Bloomsbury Group's cutting-edge thinkers-Virginia Woolf, Sigmund Freud, and E. M. Forster-understood the intimacy of friends, lovers, spouses, and families as historically unfolding phenomena, this book offers a compelling account of modernism's legacies in contemporary fiction and demonstrates the myriad ways in which intimacy was a guiding and persistent idea explored by writers across the 20th-century and up to the present day.”

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Jesse Wolfe, a Professor of English at California State University Stanislaus, specializes in British modernism. His first book, Bloomsbury, Modernism, and the Reinvention of Intimacy, was published by Cambridge UP in 2011. His second book, a loose sequel to the first entitled Love, Friendship, and Narrative Form After Bloomsbury: The Progress of Intimacy in History, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2023. Wolfe is also a poet; his debut chapbook, En Route, came out with Cathexis Northwest Press in 2020.

Jennifer Spitzer is Associate Professor of Literature at Ithaca College, and the author of Secret Sharers: The Intimate Rivalries of Modernism and Psychoanalysis (Fordham UP, 2023). Her academic essays have appeared in Modernism/modernity, Journal of Modern Literature, Studies in the Novel, Modern Language Quarterly and elsewhere. Her public-facing essays have appeared and are forthcoming in The New York Times; The Los Angeles Review of Books, Avidly; and The Huffington Post.