Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies

Francesca Bratton is Kildare Arts Writer in Residence at the Department of English, Maynooth University, Ireland. She is author of Visionary Company: Hart Crane and Modernist Magazines (2022) and Stronger than Death: Hart Crane's Final Year in Mexico (2023). .Megan Girdwood is Lecturer in English Literature, 1880–1940 at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She is author of Modernism and the Choreographic Imagination: Salome’s Dance after 1890 (2021).Fraser Riddell is Assistant Professor in English and Medical Humanities at Durham University, UK. He is author of Music and the Queer Body in English Literature at the Fin de Siècle (2022).

• Chapter 1- Introduction. - Chapter 2- Everything there is to hear / In the heart of hidden things’: Reticence and Revelation in the Poetry of Charlotte Mew. - Chapter 3- Charlotte Mew’s Silence. - Chapter 4- Charlotte Mew as a Tragic Poet.- Chapter 5- Charlotte Mew’s Self-Effacing Celebrity. - Chapter 6- Charlotte Mew and the Lens of Photography. - Chapter 7- Equivocal Address in the Poems of Charlotte Mew. - Chapter 8- Charlotte Mew and the Unspeakable Sites of Trans Embodiment. - Chapter 9- The Topographical Second Person in Charlotte Mew’s ‘The Forest Road. - Chapter 10- I am quiet with the earth’: Nature and the Lyric Self in the work of Charlotte Mew. - Chapter 11- Charlotte Mew’s Travel Poetics. -  Chapter 12- A Queer Uncertain Mind’: Charlotte Mew, Female Vocations, and the Ethics of Care.