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Eminent Victorians, Bloomsbury queerness and John Maynard Keynes

Janes

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The life and work of John Maynard Keynes should be situated in relation to his membership of the Bloomsbury Group. The members of this circle of friends experimented in their lives and works with a variety of transgressions of contemporary expectations of performances of gender and sexuality. Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians (1918) had a significant influence on the way in which Keynes depicted the allied leaders at the Paris Peace Conference in his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919). The culture of Bloomsbury queerness played a significant role in the way in which Keynes described and caricatured his political opponents. The huge popularity of Keynes' work suggests that further questions need to be asked concerning the gendered performances of allied leadership in the aftermath of World War One and the popular perceptions of those performances.

Publication Date Apr 1, 2014
Journal Literature and History
Print ISSN 0306-1973
Publisher SAGE Publications
Pages 19-32
DOI https://doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.1.2
Keywords sexuality, John Maynard Keynes, Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey, Paris Peace Conference
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/LH.23.1.2