Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism

Passengers of Modernity

• Author(s): A. Vadillo,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 266
• ISBN_10: 0230287964
  ISBN_13: 9780230287969
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Fiction / General , History / Social History , Technology & Engineering / Power Resources / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Historical & Comparative , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Literary Criticism / General ,

Description:... 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