Chains of Love and Beauty (eBook)

The Diary of Michael Field

Carolyn Dever (Autor)

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2022
280 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23497-7 (ISBN)

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Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as ';Michael Field'and who were partners and lovers for decadesis one of the great unknown works of late-Victorian and early modernist literatureMichael Field, the renowned late-Victorian poet, was well known to be the pseudonym of Katharine Bradley (18461914) and her niece, Edith Cooper (18621913). Less well known is that for three decades, the women privately maintained a romantic relationship and kept a double diary, sharing the page as they shared a bed and eventually producing a 9,500-page, twenty-nine-volume story of love, life, and art in the fin de siecle. In Chains of Love and Beauty, the first book about the diary, Carolyn Dever makes the case for this work as a great unknown ';novel' of the nineteenth century and as a bridge between George Eliot and Virginia Woolf, Victorian marriage plot and modernist experimentation.While Bradley and Cooper remained committed to publishing poetry under a single, male pseudonym, the diary, which they entitled Works and Days and hoped would be published after their deaths, allowed them to realize literary ambitions that were unfulfilled during their lifetime. The women also used the diary, which remains largely unpublished, to negotiate their art, desires, and frustrations, as well as their relationships with contemporary literary celebrities, including Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, William Butler Yeats, and Walter Pater.Showing for the first time why Works and Days is a great experimental work of late-Victorian and early modernist writing, one that sheds startling new light on gender, sexuality, and authorship, Dever reveals how Bradley and Cooper wrote their shared life as art, and their art as life, on pages of intimacy that they wanted to share with the world.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2022
• Zusatzinfo: 10 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: acetone • Ada Leverson • Adoration • Adornment • Aestheticism • affection • Alabaster • Allegory • Allusion • Ambivalence • Amoretti • Amusement • Anecdote • Art for art's sake • Arts and Crafts Movement • aunt • aurora leigh • awareness • beeswax • brocade • chivalry • Christina Rossetti • Civilization • Cleanness • Cohabitation • Consanguinity • Consciousness • Consummation • courtesy • Courtier • courtship • Creative Work • Cruet • culture and society • dear friend • deity • Djuna Barnes • domestic realism • drapery • effeminacy • Elaine Showalter • elizabeth barrett browning • Elizabeth Gaskell • embrace life • Emma Donoghue • Enmeshment • enthusiasm • eroticism • etymology • exceptionalism • Extempore • faithfulness • Feeling • femininity • Finding • freedman • George Meredith • Gertrude Stein • Glass bottle • God bless you • Gratitude • Grisette (person) • Harriet Martineau • Heroic Fantasy • Human • humming • idealization • Idyll • Immanence • impiety • independent woman • ineffability • infatuation • In open court • Insatiability • Intention • I Wish (manhwa) • Judith Butler • Julia Kristeva • kinship • Leonard Woolf • Lesbian • life together • Lightness (philosophy) • linen • Lord Alfred Douglas • Love Triangle • Loyalty • Lytton Strachey • Marjorie Garber • Marriage plot • Mary Berenson • Mass production • Melodrama • Michael Field (author) • monogamy • Mrs. • Mrs Dalloway • Ms. • Murano glass • My Beloved • Narcissism • Narration • narrative • Natural selection • Necessity is the mother of invention • Nickname • Of Two Minds • Olive Schreiner • Orovida Camille Pissarro • Oscar Wilde • Parody • Pathos • Personhood • Phrase • Pleasure • Poetic tradition • Poet Laureate • Poetry • Polymer • polynices • presumption • Protagonist • Prothalamion • Quantity • Resin • Rhyme • Role • romantic friendship • sadness • sanity • Scents and Sensibility • self-love • Self-realization • sensationalism • sensibility • sentimentality • Sexology • Sexual Desire (book) • Sibylline • simile • Sloe Gin • Solvent • Sophocles • Soulmate • spinster • spirit photography • Spiritual autobiography • spouse • stanza • Subjectivity • Sweetness and light • The Erotic • The Importance of Being Earnest • the lady of shalott • The love that dare not speak its name • The Marriage Plot • The Narrator • Theory of Forms • Trickster • Two Ladies • two women • unrequited love • V. • Virginia Woolf • virginity • Wildness • Wilkie Collins • Woolf • Works and Days • World
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23497-3 / 0691234973
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23497-7 / 9780691234977