188 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death. Recognizing Amy Lowell as a literary diva, Bradshaw shows, accounts for... Read more
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.
Biography
Melissa Bradshaw teaches English at Loyola University Chicago, USA.
Prize: Winner, Modern Language Association Prize for Independent Scholars, 2012. 'I found these readings compelling and lively... Bradshaw’s study makes a strong case for the significance of Lowell’s poems and shows the considerable effect of celebrity writers on the rise of modern poetry in the early twentieth century.' Clio ’This is an excellent book which is more than the sum of its parts, with the concerted effort resulting in a new Lowell.’ Feminist and Women's Studies Association
