Michael Field in context / edited by Sarah Parker.

Other author Parker, Sarah, 1985- editor.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Copyright Date©2025
Descriptionxxviii, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Field, Michael--Criticism and interpretation.
Bradley, Katharine Harris, 1846-1914--Criticism and interpretation.
Cooper, Edith Emma, 1862-1913--Criticism and interpretation.
English literature--Women authors. --History and criticism.
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Authorship--Collaboration. --History. --19th century.
Lesbian authors--Great Britain. --Biography.

Contents Becoming 'Michael Field' / LeeAnne M. Richardson -- Michael Field's diary : works and days / Carolyn Dever -- Michael Field's Letters / Sharon A. Bickle -- Collaborative Authorship / Heather Bozant Witcher -- Queering the house beautiful : Michael Field's aesthetic interiors / Ana Parejo Vadillo -- Michael Field's Catholicism / Lewis H. Whitaker -- Michael Field and Lyric / Emily Harrington -- Michael Field and verse drama / Annmarie Steffes -- Michael Field's short prose / Isobel Sigley -- Ekphrasis in sight and song / Dominique Gracia -- Michael Field's love lyrics / Sarah E. Kersh -- Sonnets / Catherine Maxwell -- Devotional Poetry / J. D. Stone -- Whym Chow : flame of love and animal poetry / Caroline Baylis-Green -- Long ago : ancient Greece and Sapphic poetics / Isobel Hurst -- Ancient Egypt / Eleanor Dobson -- Roman decadence / Tara Thomas -- The Renaissance / Hilary Fraser -- Romanticism and the sublime / Andrea Gazzaniga -- Michael Field, Walter Pater, and queer aestheticism / Dustin Friedman -- The new woman and late-Victorian feminism / Margaret D. Stetz -- Michael Field and Oscar Wilde / Joseph Bristow -- French Decadence / Jessica Gossling -- Michael Field among the women poets / Linda K. Hughes -- Late-Victorian theatre and the new drama / Catherine Quirk -- Aesthetic book design / Nicholas Frankel -- Michael Field and post-Victorian decadence / Kristin Mahoney -- Michael Field and modernism / Sarah Parker -- Queer studies / Kate Thomas -- Ecology / Dennis Denisoff -- Illness, Disability, and Crip Studies / Jill R. Ehnenn -- Transgender and non-binary identities / Frankie Dytor -- Race and Empire / Alex Murray -- Michael Field in the digital age / Peter Melville Logan -- Performing Michael Field / interview with Sophie Goldrick and Tom Floyd, Shadow Opera.
Abstract "The authoritative introduction to Michael Field's diverse cultural contexts, exploring their historical and contemporary influences from Ancient Greece to modernism, delving into their connections with other authors, including Wilde, Pater and New Women Writers, and showcasing critical perspectives that bring their work into the present"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formebook version : 9781009382670
LCCN 2025004817
ISBN9781009382625
ISBN1009382624 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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