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A New Matrix for Modernsim: A Study of the Lives and Poetry of Charlotte Mew & Anna Wickham (Studies in Major Literary Authors)
Nelljean Rice
Hardcover. Routledge 2002-10.
ISBN 9780415941402
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Publisher description
Many studies of poetic modernism focus on the avatars of High Modernism,
Eliot, Pound and Yeats, who created a critical coterie based on culture and
class. A New Matrix for Modernism introduces a matrilineage for modernism that
traces a distinct women's poetic voice from the Bronte sisters through Alice
Meynell to modernists Charlotte Mew and Anna Wickham who combine feminist
content with an innovative exploration of formalist prosody. Placing Mew and
Wickham in a cultural context, A New Matrix recovers Coventry Patmore's 'angel
in the house' metaphor. Distorted by Virginia Woolf, who misread the angel as
woman, this metaphor receives an accurate resonance from Walter Pater's 'The
Child in the House'. Shifting emphasis from woman to child, mother to daughter
and urbs to suburb, relocating modernism's matrilingua to the boundaries of
London society and culture, A New Matrix ranges widely among architecture,
mental illness, Fabianism, Positivism, Theosophy, women's suffrage and
education to a new 'house' for modernism - a woman's place of secret joys and
sorrows. Well researched yet passionate, this book will appeal to both the scholar
and the generalist interested in modernism, poetry, feminism, culture and
British literary history. This book introduces a matrilineage for modernism that traces a distinct
women's poetic voice from the Brontes through Alice Meynell to modernists
Charlotte Mew and Anna Wickham.
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