Featuring innovative research by emergent and established scholars,
The Fin-de-Siecle Poem throws new light on the remarkable diversity
of poetry produced at the close of the nineteenth century in
England. Opening with a detailed preface that shows why literary
historians have frequently underrated fin-de-siecle poetry, the
collection explains how a strikingly rich body of lyrical and
narrative poems anticipated many of the developments traditionally
attributed to Modernism. Each chapter in turn provides insights
into the ways in which late-nineteenth-century poets represented
their experiences of the city, their attitudes toward sexuality,
their responses to empire, and their interest in religious belief.
The eleven essays presented by editor Joseph Bristow pay renewed
attention to the achievements of such legendary writers as Oscar
Wilde, John Davidson, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, and W.B.
Yeats, whose careers have always been associated with the 1890s.
This book also explores the lesser-known but equally significant
advances made by notable women poets, including Michael Field, Amy
Levy, Charlotte Mew, Alice Meynell, A. Mary F. Robinson, and Graham
R. Tomson. The Fin-de-Siecle Poem brings together innovative
research on poetry that has been typecast as the attenuated
Victorianism that was rejected by Modernism. The contributors
underscore the remarkable innovations made in English poetry of the
1880s and 1890s and show how woman poets stood shoulder-to-shoulder
with their better-known male contemporaries.Joseph Bristow is
professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles,
where he edits the journal Nineteenth-Century Literature. His
recent books include TheCambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry,
Oscar Wilde: Contextual Conditions, and the variorum edition of
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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