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Michael Field's Revisionary Poetics

Michael Field's Revisionary Poetics

Ehnenn, Jill R.

Hardcover

Series: Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1474448399
ISBN13: 9781474448390
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Apr 17 2023
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
All authors try to do something new, or tell an old story in a new way; but for Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, who wrote as Michael Field and called themselves 'Poets and Lovers', rewriting old stories, history and traditional literary forms with extraordinary innovation was nothing short of high art. Offering new readings of a wide range of Michael Field texts, this book asks: how do ambitious experiments with a joint diary, closet drama, ekphrasis, elegy and nature, devotional and love poetry help these women navigate the paradox of looking backward in order to achieve their goal 'to make all things new'? How do their revisionary poetics help the co-authors, as queer, female Aesthetes, cope with late-Victorian modernity? Through an interdisciplinary approach to their passionate and sometimes eccentric life and work, this book provokes thought about the fin-de-siècle and invites readers, like Michael Field themselves, to engage the past in order to create transtemporal community and to make sense of the present.

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