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Amy Lowell, Diva Poet (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Amy Lowell, Diva Poet (Hardcover, New Ed)
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In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern
American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the
diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary
literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally
extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death.
Recognizing Amy Lowell as a literary diva, Bradshaw shows, accounts
for her commitment to her art, her extravagant self-promotion and
self-presentation, and her fame, which was of a kind no longer
associated with poets. It also explains the devaluation of Lowell's
poetry and criticism, since a woman's diva status is always
short-lived and the accomplishments of celebrity women are
typically dismissed and trivialized. In restoring Lowell to her
place within the American poetic renaissance of the nineteen-teens
and twenties, Bradshaw also recovers a vibrant moment in popular
culture when poetry enjoyed mainstream popularity, audiences packed
poetry readings, and readers avidly followed the honors, exploits,
and feuds of their favorite poets in the literary columns of daily
newspapers. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs,
newspapers, and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical
interpretations of her poetry that have often characterized
criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw gives us an Amy Lowell who could not
be further removed from the lonely victim of ill-health and obesity
who appears in earlier book-length studies. Amy Lowell as diva poet
takes her rightful place as a powerful writer of modernist verse
who achieved her personal and professional goals without
capitulating to heteronormative ideals of how a woman should act,
think, or appear.
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