Michael Field : decadent moderns / edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parker, Sarah, 1985- editor, author.

Parejo Vadillo, Ana, 1969- editor, author.

Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

Series:

Series in Victorian Studies

Series in Victorian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Field, Michael.

Lesbians' writings.

Poetry, Modern.

Themes, motives.

Criticism and interpretation.

Field, Michael--Criticism and interpretation.

Lesbianism in literature.

Desire in literature.

Poetry, Modern--19th century--Themes, motives.

Lesbians' writings--History and criticism.

Poetry, Modern--Themes, motives.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

ix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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.

"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 si�ecle, 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.

"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.

"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 siï¿1/2ecle, 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.

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 .

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Clyde de Loache Ryals Endowed Acquisition Fund.

ISBN:

9780821424018

0821424017

OCLC:

1091370199

Publisher Number:

99983907618