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    • Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University, North Carolina
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  • Publisher:
    Edinburgh University Press
    Publication date:
    January 2025
    April 2023
    ISBN:
    9781474448413
    9781474448390
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    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest
    Series:
    Nineteenth-Century and Neo-Victorian Cultures
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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.

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