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'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 of many of the most distinctive aesthetic debates of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; a process unified by the recurring engagement with theories of time and history that structures this book. This analysis of poetry, aestheticism and the fin de si

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: 'Michael Field'
• Subtitle: Poetry, Aestheticism and the Fin de Siecle
• Author: Marion Thain
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• EAN: 9780521147736
• ISBN: 0521147735
• ID: 02023900
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 436 g
• Dimensions: 151 × 227 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 24. June 2010

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