| Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity 2005 Edition Contributor(s): Vadillo, A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1403935386 ISBN-13: 9781403935380 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2005 Annotation: 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). |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 821.809 |
| LCCN: 2004060603 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 6.14" W x 8.92" (1.03 lbs) 266 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 |