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Series in Victorian Studies
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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.
Contributors: Leire Barrera-Medrano, Joseph Bristow, Jill R. Ehnenn, Sarah E. Kersh, Kristin Mahoney, Catherine Maxwell, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Margaret D. Stetz, Kate Thomas, and Ana Parejo Vadillo.
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Michael Field © 2019 by Ohio University Press is licensed under Creative Commons License CC BY-NC-ND. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Language
eng
ISBN
9780821446928
Publication Date
12-10-2019
Publisher
Ohio University Press
City
Athens
Keywords
Literary criticism, Victorian Studies, Michael Field, Katharine Bradley, Edith Cooper, LGBTQ+ studies, Queer Studies, fin de siècle, Literary Modernism
Disciplines
Creative Writing | Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies | Literature in English, British Isles | Modern Literature | Queer Studies
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
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Parker, Sarah and Vadillo, Ana Parejo, "Michael Field : Decadent Moderns" (2019). Ohio University Press Open Access Books. 64.
https://ohioopen.library.ohio.edu/oupress/64
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