In this study I argue that G. E. Moores philosophy of friendship developed in Achilles or Patroclus? and Principia Ethica, and the Great War, influenced the Bloomsbury Groups notions of friendship. I argue that these dual influences were central to Lawrence, Forster, and Woolfs representations of frustrated and melancholic friendship in their post-war novels: Women In Love, A Passage to India, and The Waves. Lawrence rejected Moores notion of friendship suggesting that after the Great War desexualized friendship was impossible. Forster and Woolf, however, both retained some aspect of Moores concept that friendship and the pleasure of human intercourse are among the most valuable things, which we can know or imagine (Principia Ethica 188-189). In A Passage to India and The Waves Forster and Woolf demonstrate the limitations of Moores philosophy in a modern context, but both suggest that friendship should be cultivated despite these limitations. In this study, therefore, I refute Leonard Woolfs notion that Moore influenced the Bloomsbury Group only in its earliest stages, and I suggest that the post-war modern novel is not completely devoid of the promise of satisfactory personal relationships.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PITT/oai:PITTETD:etd-11032009-120428 |
| Date | 27 January 2010 |
| Creators | Carroll, Llana |
| Contributors | Troy Boone, Colin MacCabe, Philip E. Smith, Kieran Setiya |
| Publisher | University of Pittsburgh |
| Source Sets | University of Pittsburgh |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.library.pitt.edu/ETD/available/etd-11032009-120428/ |
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