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

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ANA PAREJO VADILLO is Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture at the
School of English, University of Exeter, UK.

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Book Title: Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism
Book Subtitle: Passengers of Modernity
Authors: Ana Parejo Vadillo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230287969
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-3538-0Published: 08 September 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-51785-5Published: 08 September 2005
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28796-9Published: 08 September 2005
Series ISSN: 2634-6494
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6508
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 266
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, British and Irish Literature, Fiction, Social History, Transportation

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Passengers of Modernity

Amy Levy in Bloomsbury: The Poet as Passenger

Alice Meynell: An Impressionist in Kensington

The Fastest Neighbourhood in Town: Graham R. Tomson in St John’s Wood

Modernity in Suburbia: Michael Field’s Experimental Poetics

Postscript: The End of the Line?

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