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'For That Moment Only' and Other Prose Works, by Michael Field,

'For That Moment Only' and Other Prose Works, by Michael Field, - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Alex Murray (Editor), Sarah Parker (Editor)Publish date:2022-07-04Pages:204
Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern Humanities Research AssociationISBN-13:9781781889732ISBN-10:1781889732UPC:9781781889732Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SC8BBXAN7Q

Over the past thirty years the work of Michael Field - the penname of the couple Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper - has become established as one of the most important, and unique, literary voices of the fin de siècle. Although they are today remembered for their lyric poetry and verse drama, by sheer weight of volume alone, Bradley and Cooper wrote far more prose than poetry. Their diaries contain over a million words, and their letters and notebooks are extensive. Yet little of that prose has been made available to readers without access to the collections at the British Library, London, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.


For a significant period in the 1890s Bradley and Cooper concentrated their energies on prose. A number of the prose works completed between 1889 and 1894 were collected by them in two 'series' under the title For That Moment Only. Inspired by Walter Pater and the latest developments in French literature, these croquis - prose sketches or prose poems - are their most concerted attempt to be 'contemporaneous', to capture fleeting experiences in exquisite prose. Clearly intended at one point for publication, the sketches were abandoned following their decisive break with their mentor Bernard Berenson and his partner Mary Costelloe in 1895.


Along with the entire text of For That Moment Only, this volume also brings together Michael Field's published stories and essays, other miscellaneous short prose located within their manuscripts, and their experiments with prose form found in 'Works and Days', their compendious diary. With an extensive scholarly introduction and authoritative notes, the volume places experimental short prose at the heart of Michael Field's creative project, opening Bradley and Cooper's work up to a readership which has hitherto associated them only with lyric poetry and verse drama.


Language:EnglishPublisher:Modern Humanities Research AssociationISBN-13:9781781889732ISBN-10:1781889732UPC:9781781889732Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Short Stories (single author)Size:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.0207Product ID:SC8BBXAN7Q
Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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