TY - BOOK ID - 80823809 TI - "Michael Field" : poetry, aestheticism and the fin de siecle PY - 2007 SN - 9780511484933 9780521874182 9780521147736 9780511355561 0511355564 9786611153342 6611153349 1107181542 1281153346 1139132822 0511355041 0511354495 051135391X 0511484933 0521874181 0521147735 PB - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Aestheticism (Literature) KW - Decadence (Literary movement) KW - Literary movements KW - Literature, Modern KW - History and criticism KW - Field, Michael KW - Bradley, Katharine Harris, KW - Cooper, Edith Emma, KW - Leigh, Isla, KW - Bradley, Katherine Harris, KW - Leigh, Arran, KW - Author of Borgia KW - Borgia, Author of KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:80823809 AB - '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, which 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 siècle, through the performance of 'Michael Field', has implications that reach far beyond an understanding of one poet's work. Scholars of both Victorian and modernist literature will learn much from this innovative and compelling study. ER -