"Michael Field" : poetry, aestheticism and the fin de siècle
Marion Thain
Bok · Engelsk · 2007
| Utgitt | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2007
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| Opplysninger | Acknowledgements; Introduction: 'something fierce, subtle, strange, singular'; 1. The diaries and dramas: life-writing and the temporal patterns of aestheticism; 2. Long Ago: the male pseudonym, fin-de-siecle sexualities and Sappho's historical leap; 3. Sight and Song: Botticelli and ekphrastic paradox; 4. Underneath The Bough: dual authorship and lyric song; 5. Wild Honey from Various Thyme: apian aestheticism and the lyric book collection; 6. The Catholic poetry: the spiritual and historical 'turn' of the century; Conclusion: modernism and the fin de siecle; Notes; Bibliography of material by Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper; General bibliography; Index.. - 'Michael Field' (1884-1914) was the literary pseudonym of two women, the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who lived and wrote together as 'lovers'. Their large oeuvre contains poems, dramas and a vast diary. Marion Thain recounts the development of a fascinating and idiosyncratic poetic persona that, she argues, itself became a self-reflexive study in aestheticism."--Omslaget
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| ISBN | 9780521147736. - 9780521874182
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