| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 289 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Series in Victorian Studies |
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Series in Victorian Studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo -- Vegetable Love: Michael Field's Queer Ecology / Kate Thomas -- "As She Feels a God Within": Michael Field and Inspiration / Margaret D. Stetz -- Sculpture, Poetics, Marble Books: Casting Michael Field / Ana Parejo Vadillo -- Sister Arts: Michael Field and Mary Costelloe / Sarah Parker -- Michael Field's "Unwomanly Audacities": Attila, My Attila!, Sexual Modernity, and the London Stage / Joseph Bristow -- Michael Field's Fragrant Imagination -- Catherine Maxwell -- "Profane Travelers": Michael Field, Cornwall, and Modern Tourism / Alex Murray -- "Thy Body Maketh a Solemn Song": Desire and Disability in Michael Field's "Catholic Poems" / Jill R. Ehnenn -- "St. Theresa, I Call on You to Help": Michael Field and Spanish Mysticism / Leire Barrera-Medrano -- Michael Field's Eric Gill: Radical Kinship, Cosmopolitanism, and Queer Catholicism / Kristin Mahoney -- "Betwixt Us Two": Whym Chow, Metonymy, and the Amatory Sonnet Tradition / Sarah E. Kersh |
| Summary |
"In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Through their collaborative partnership as "Michael Field," Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper engaged in the aesthetic and decadent movements of the fin de siècle, while their poetry and verse drama articulate ideas associated with the New Woman and boldly express queer and lesbian desire. Michael Field: Decadent Moderns extends the focus on these key literary and cultural contexts by emphasizing their continuing significance within twentieth-century literary modernism. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays, this book addresses Michael Field's energetic engagements with a range of topics including ecology, perfume, tourism, art history, sculpture, formalism, classics, and book history. In doing so, Michael Field: Decadent Moderns highlights the modernity, radicalism, and relevance of their work, both within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as in our own cultural moment"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"This collection of essays in part originates in 'The Michael Field Centenary Conference' that was held on July 11-12, 2014, under the auspices of the Institute of English Studies, University of London"--Acknowledgments |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Field, Michael -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Field, Michael -- Criticism and interpretation
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Field, Michael fast |
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Lesbianism in literature.
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Desire in literature.
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Poetry, Modern -- 19th century -- Themes, motives
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Lesbians' writings -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
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Desire in literature
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Lesbianism in literature
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Lesbians' writings
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Poetry, Modern -- Themes, motives
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Parker, Sarah, 1985- editor, author.
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Parejo Vadillo, Ana, 1969- editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9780821446928 |
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0821446924 |
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