Cambridge studies in nineteenth century literature and cultureseries number 58 michael field.

Books boeken marion thain cambridge university press paperback juni 2010: Michael Field 1884-1914 was the pseudonym of two women the aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper who lived and wrote together as lovers. The 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. The constructed life and work of Michael Field is used here to deepen and complicate our understanding of many of the most distinctive aesthetic debates of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries a process unified by the recurring engagement with theories of time and history that structures this book.

This analysis of poetry aestheticism and the fin de sicle through the performance of Michael Field has implications that reach far beyond an understanding of one poets work. Scholars of both Victorian and modernist literature will learn much from this innovative and compelling study.

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