Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism

Passengers of Modernity

A. Vadillo

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Année: 2005
• ISBN:
  9780230287969
• Sujet: Literature
• Sous-sujet: Literary Criticism Theory

This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban mass-transport. It also radically re-addresses the questions of epistemology and gender in the Victorian metropolis by mapping the epistemology of the passenger. Vadillo focuses on the lyric urban writings of Amy Levy, Alice Meynell, 'Graham R. Tomson' (Rosamund Marriott Watson) and 'Michael Field' (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper). Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Prize

Table des matières

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Passengers of Modernity
• 1 Amy Levy in Bloomsbury: The Poet as Passenger
• 2 Alice Meynell: An Impressionist in Kensington
• 3 The Fastest Neighbourhood in Town: Graham R. Tomson in St John’s Wood
• 4 Modernity in Suburbia: Michael Field’s Experimental Poetics
• Postscript: The End of the Line?
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index