Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity

by Bernard A Conway

Overview

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).

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403935380
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/10/2005
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture Series
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.74(w) x 8.74(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Ana Parejo Vadillo is Visiting Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Table of Contents

Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction
• Part 1: Urban Passengers * Amy Levy and the Circle of Being: At Gower Street Station
• Alice Meynell: The Rhythm of Life at Notting Hill Gate Station
• The Fastest Neighbourhood in Town: Graham R. Tomson in St. John's Wood
• Part 2: Suburban Passengers
• Modernity in Suburbia: Michael Fields' Experimental Poetics
• Postscript: The End of the Line?
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index