Melissa Bradshaw

Amy Lowell, Diva Poet

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Produktbeschreibung

Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and the dismissal of her work after her death. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs, newspapers and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical interpretations of her poetry that have often character

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm
• ISBN-13: 9781032928333
• ISBN-10: 1032928336
• Artikelnr.: 71560732

Autorenporträt

Melissa Bradshaw teaches English at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the poet as diva: femininity, celebrity, poetry
The fat woman in the attic: cultural memory and the construction of a persona
The demon saleswoman: selling avant-garde poetics to the American public
The last of the barons: Americanism and gender ambivalence in wartime
Nothing to hide: Lowell's love poems and the myth of authenticity
The erotics of submission: Eleonora Duse in Lowell's poetry
Afterword: whatever happened to Amy Lowell?: Works cited
Index.