Nineteenth-Century Fiction and the Production of Bloomsbury

Matthew Ingleby is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He works on the politics of space in the long nineteenth century. Publications include the short popular history, Bloomsbury: Beyond the Establishment (2017), Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century co-edited with Matthew Kerr (2018), and G. K. Chesterton, London and Modernity, co-edited with Matthew Beaumont (2013).

• 1. Introduction—Writing Bloomsbury’s Trajectory.- 2. Bloomsbury Entertains: Dinner Parties and the Literary Geographies of Class.- 3. Bloomsbury versus the Marriage Plot: Boarding-House and Barrister Bachelors.- 4. Bloomsbury’s Vocations: Philanthropic Medicine and Iatrophobic Fiction.- 5. Women in the Walkplace: Tracking Bloomsbury’s Female Pedestrians.- 6. In the Valley of the Shadow of Books: Placing Fictions of Literary Production at the Fin de Siècle.- 7.Conclusion—“Bloomsbury” in Play.

“The book succeeds at providing a truly new interpretation of an area that has been mainly associated with Modernist literature. It presents the first thorough investigation of the neighbourhood’s change over time, unearthing its unprecedented shifts in the domains of literature, culture, economy and society.” (BAVS Newsletter, Vol. 19 (3), 2019)