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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. Examines history, modernity, gender, and sexuality through the literary innovations of two late-Victorian female co-authorsOffers new readings of a wide range of Michael Field texts (Callirrhoë, Fair Rosamund, Canute the Great, Long Ago, Sight and Song, Underneath the Bough, Wild Honey, Poems of Adoration, Mystic Trees, Whym Chow, the joint diary Works and Days and many unpublished poems)Uses interdisciplinary methods to bring Michael Field's life and work in conversation with queer and feminist approaches to literary form, art history, ecocriticism, disability studies and religious studiesIdentifies the literary, visual, and philosophical precursors of Michael Field's adaptations and proposes that we read their appropriations as a deliberate blend of objective and subjective epistemologiesTraces resonances between fin-de-siècle culture and today's theoretical debates about historicist vs. presentist approaches to the archive and Foucauldian vs. phenomenological understandings of subjectivity, gender and sexualitySituates Michael Field in relation to literary texts and philosophical thought of their contemporaries-the late Victorians and Decadent Moderns with whom they bridge the nineteenth and twentieth centuriesAll 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.

Field, Michael --- Criticism and interpretation.

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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 siecle, 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"--

Lesbianism in literature. --- Desire in literature. --- Poetry, Modern --- Lesbians' writings --- Themes, motives. --- History and criticism. --- Field, Michael --- Criticism and interpretation.

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This book shows how British women writers' encounters with textual and visual representations of ancient Egyptian women such as Hathor, Isis, and Cleopatra influenced how British women represented their own desired emancipation in novels, poetry, drama, romances, and fictional treatises. Molly Youngkin argues that canonical women writers such as Florence Nightingale and George Eliot—and less canonical figures such as Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper (who wrote under the name 'Michael Field') and Elinor Glyn—incorporated their knowledge of ancient Egyptian women's cultural power in only a limited fashion when presenting their visions for emancipation. Often, they represented ancient Greek women or Italian Renaissance women rather than ancient Egyptian women, since Greek and Italian cultures were more familiar and less threatening to their British audience. This notable distinction opens up discussions about the history of British women, their writing, and the British view on gender in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Science --- wetenschap --- vrouwen --- wetenschappen --- English literature: authors --- Glyn, Elinor --- Cleopatra VII --- Nightingale, Florence --- Eliot, George --- Field, Michael --- Antiquity --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1910-1919 --- Egypt

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English literature. --- Literary theory. --- Field, Michael --- Criticism and interpretation. --- British literature --- Inklings (Group of writers) --- Nonsense Club (Group of writers) --- Order of the Fancy (Group of writers) --- Author of Borgia --- Borgia, Author of --- Bradley, Katharine Harris, --- Cooper, Edith Emma,

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Deze reader bevat 17 essays over en geïnspireerd door het werk van Victoriaanse dichteressen. De artikelen onderzoeken o.a. het beeld van de gevallen vrouw, van de moeder en de muze in de poëzie van deze vrouwen. Dit boek biedt daarnaast ook een frissen kijk op de vele debatten over interpretatie, biografie en de canon.

English poetry --- Women and literature --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- History --- Literature --- Eliot, George --- Rossetti, Christina Georgina --- Hemans, Felicia --- Field, Michael --- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett --- anno 1800-1899 --- Great Britain --- Brontë, Emily Jane --- Watson, Rosamund Marriott --- Coleridge, Mary E. --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- English poetry - Women authors - History and criticism. --- Procter, Adelaide Anne --- English literature --- Women authors&delete& --- Rossetti, Christina --- Brontë, Emily --- Poetry --- Book