Overview
- The first dedicated volume to engage critically with Charlotte Mew’s poetry, fiction and essays
- Explores Mew’s oeuvre in relation to her wider late-Victorian and early modernist intellectual milieu
- Brings together scholars working across poetry and poetics, decadence, modernism, ecocriticism and queer theory
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture (PNWC)
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This collection of essays explores the life and works of the British poet and author of short stories Charlotte Mew (1869-1928). It represents the first volume dedicated solely to critical engagement with the full range of Mew’s poetry, fiction and essays. Mew moved within a remarkable range of literary and intellectual circles, from The Yellow Book in the 1890s to Bloomsbury’s Poetry Bookshop in the 1910s. As such, her work challenges traditional distinctions between literary periods and sits within the more expansive framework of the long nineteenth century and its legacies. Each chapter contextualises Mew’s oeuvre by examining her experiments with poetic and narrative genres in relation to her wider late Victorian and early modernist intellectual milieu. The volume draws together literary scholars working across the fields of poetry and poetics, decadence, modernism, ecocriticism and queer theory, while illustrating the particular stylistic and thematic complexities of Mew’s writing.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charlotte Mew: Poetics, Bodies, Ecologies
Editors: Francesca Bratton, Megan Girdwood, Fraser Riddell
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62542-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-62541-1Published: 02 September 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-62544-2Due: 16 September 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-62542-8Published: 01 September 2024
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 284
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature, Comparative Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literature, general, Literary Theory