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Michael Field and their world Edited by Margaret D. Stetz and Cheryl A. Wilson Writing as “Michael Field,” Katharine Bradley (1846–1914) and Edith Cooper (1862–1913), the British aunt and niece lesbian couple, produced an enormous and distinguished body of plays and poetry. Long neglected, they now appear frequently in anthologies of Victorian literature, queer literature, and literature by women. This is the first collection of essays to be devoted to their lives, works, relations with contemporaries, and influential legacies, as well as to the critical and theoretical questions raised by their collaboration. The contributors to this volume are some of today’s most prominent scholars of Victorian studies and gender studies from several continents. |
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Hardbound: 15.9 x 23.5 cm, 256 pp., illustrated. ISBN 1 904201 08 3 £30.00 / $55.00 To purchase please click here |
CONTENTS Introduction margaret d. stetz and cheryl a. wilson
Biography Talking Collaboratively: Conversations with Michael Field rachel morley
Michael Field: Gender Knot katharine (jj) pionke
Michael Field as “the Author of Borgia” holly laird
Rethinking Michael Field: The Case for the Bodleian Letters sharon bickle
Michael Field’s Lyrical Aestheticism: Underneath the Bough joseph bristow
Contexts: Literary and Cultural Worlds Michael Field’s Shakespearean Community rhian e. williams
Attributing the Substance of Collaboration as Michael Field maría deguzmán
Penetrating Matthew Arnold ed madden
The Dialectics of Conversion: Marius and Michael Field kit andrews
Sisters in Life, Sisters in Art: Ella and Marion Hepworth Dixon valerie fehlbaum
Reluctant Lions: Michael Field and the Transatlantic Literary Salon of Louise Chandler Moulton linda k. hughes
The Sapphic Culture of Michael Field and Radclyffe Hall richard dellamora
Thematics: Sexuality and Religion Michael Field as Dandy Poet elizabeth primamore
“Where Twilight Touches Ripeness Amorously”: The Gaze in Michael Field’s Sight and Song brooke cameron
Michael Field and the Challenges of Writing a Lesbian Catholicism frederick s. roden
Michael Field and Saint Sebastian dinah ward
Keeping Faith: Consistency and Paradox in the World View of Michael Field chris snodgrass
Michael Field’s Pagan Catholicism camille cauti
Katharine Bradley and Ethical Socialism diana maltz
Translations: Textuality and Genre Michael Field’s Translations into Verse julie wise
The Concrete Poetics of Michael Field’s Sight and Song nicholas frankel
Apian Aestheticism: Michael Field and the Economics of the Aesthetic marion thain
Outmoded Dramas: History and Modernity in Michael Field’s Aesthetic Plays ana parejo vadillo
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| Published 15 April 2007 | |
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