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Women poets and urban aestheticism, passengers of modernity, Ana Parejo Vadillo

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

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index present

non fiction

Women poets and urban aestheticism

electronic resource

Ana Parejo Vadillo

Palgrave studies in nineteenth-century writing and culture

passengers of modernity

This text re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban mass-transport., This book re-examines cultural, social, geographical and philosophical representations of Victorian London by looking at the transformations in urban life produced by the rise and development of urban mass-transport. It also radically re-addresses the questions of epistemology and gender in the Victorian metropolis by mapping the epistemology of the passenger. Vadillo focuses on the lyric urban writings of Amy Levy, Alice Meynell, 'Graham R. Tomson' (Rosamund Marriott Watson) and 'Michael Field' (Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper). Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Prize