Ana Parejo Vadillo – författare

An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key literary texts from the Victorian period.

An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key literary texts from the Victorian period.

An anthology of both familiar and previously unavailable primary texts that illuminate the world of nineteenth-century ideas. An expert team introduce and annotate a range of original social, cultural, political and historical documents necessary for contextualising key literary texts from the Victorian period.

In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Through their collaborative partnership as "Michael Field," Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper engaged in the aesthetic and decadent movements of the fin de siècle, while their poetry and verse drama articulate ideas associated with the New Woman and boldly express queer and lesbian desire. Michael Field: Decadent Moderns extends the focus on these key literary and cultural contexts by emphasizing their continuing significance within twentieth-century literary modernism. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays, this book addresses Michael Field's energetic engagements with a range of topics including ecology, perfume, tourism, art history, sculpture, formalism, classics, and book history. In doing so, Michael Field: Decadent Moderns highlights the modernity, radicalism, and relevance of their work, both within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as in our own cultural moment.Contributors: Leire Barrera-Medrano, Joseph Bristow, Jill R. Ehnenn, Sarah E. Kersh, Kristin Mahoney, Catherine Maxwell, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Margaret D. Stetz, Kate Thomas, and Ana Parejo Vadillo.

In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Through their collaborative partnership as "Michael Field," Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper engaged in the aesthetic and decadent movements of the fin de siècle, while their poetry and verse drama articulate ideas associated with the New Woman and boldly express queer and lesbian desire. Michael Field: Decadent Moderns extends the focus on these key literary and cultural contexts by emphasizing their continuing significance within twentieth-century literary modernism. Through a series of interdisciplinary essays, this book addresses Michael Field's energetic engagements with a range of topics including ecology, perfume, tourism, art history, sculpture, formalism, classics, and book history. In doing so, Michael Field: Decadent Moderns highlights the modernity, radicalism, and relevance of their work, both within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as in our own cultural moment.Contributors: Leire Barrera-Medrano, Joseph Bristow, Jill R. Ehnenn, Sarah E. Kersh, Kristin Mahoney, Catherine Maxwell, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Margaret D. Stetz, Kate Thomas, and Ana Parejo Vadillo.

This first-ever sustained study of Michael Field's verse dramas restores their central place in the history of Decadent and Modernist theater. Organized into four sections - genre, queer time and space, dramatic affect, and modernist interventions - it traces the development and historical and literary significance of Field's plays. Essays combine literary criticism, theater history, and queer theory to examine formal innovation, performance, and authorship. Contributions also engage underexamined and unpublished works, expanding the archive and opening new directions for research. Plays are situated within broader literary and theatrical contexts, including connections to contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats and the development of the genre by T. S. Eliot and Gordon Bottomley. This is an essential collection for scholars and researchers of late-Victorian and Modernist literatures, theater studies, and queer studies alike.

This first-ever sustained study of Michael Field's verse dramas restores their central place in the history of Decadent and Modernist theater. Organized into four sections - genre, queer time and space, dramatic affect, and modernist interventions - it traces the development and historical and literary significance of Field's plays. Essays combine literary criticism, theater history, and queer theory to examine formal innovation, performance, and authorship. Contributions also engage underexamined and unpublished works, expanding the archive and opening new directions for research. Plays are situated within broader literary and theatrical contexts, including connections to contemporaries such as Oscar Wilde and W. B. Yeats and the development of the genre by T. S. Eliot and Gordon Bottomley. This is an essential collection for scholars and researchers of late-Victorian and Modernist literatures, theater studies, and queer studies alike.