'Michael Field': Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siècle

by Marion Thain

Book Overview

'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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521147735
• ISBN13: 9780521147736
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"