Stetz, Kate Thomas, and Ana Parejo Vadillo. Kersh, Kristin Mahoney, Catherine Maxwell, Alex Murray, Sarah Parker, Margaret D. In doing so, Michael Field: Decadent Moderns highlights the modernity, radicalism, and relevance of their work, both within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as well as in our own cultural moment.Ĭontributors: Leire Barrera-Medrano, Joseph Bristow, Jill R.

Through a series of interdisciplinary essays, this book addresses Michael Field’s energetic engagements with a range of topics including ecology, perfume, tourism, art history, sculpture, formalism, classics, and book history. Michael Field: Decadent Moderns extends the focus on these key literary and cultural contexts by emphasizing their continuing significance within twentieth-century literary modernism. Through their collaborative partnership as “Michael Field,” Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper engaged in the aesthetic and decadent movements of the fin de siècle, while their poetry and verse drama articulate ideas associated with the New Woman and boldly express queer and lesbian desire.

Usually, in religious texts, people say 'à droite de dieu le père' (at God's right), and here there's a pun, because the singer is not referring to a position (à droite ) but to a boxing move.In the last twenty years, Michael Field has emerged as one of the most fascinating poets of the Victorian era. Marcel is an old first name for men (kind of names that our grandfathers have), but if you read it 'attila m'harcèle', it means 'attila harasses me' 'il me serre si fort dans ses bras' : serrer usually means 'to hold' (=nice) when it's about arms, but the same verb is used to mean 'to squeeze'(=bad), which makes of this phrase another pun. 'c'est pas de la gnognotte' means here something like 'he's really something' (because of his weight) 'gnognotte' is a depreciative term. But, in this context you can also understand it as if the man strikes her with his boots. 'botte' is an old phrase meaning you find something cool. here it's positive on one side, because Edith Piaf's is a love song, and pink and blue are nice colours, but it's also negative because 'bleu' means 'blue'.or 'bruise' The singer might be referencing Edith Piaf's 'La vie en Rose' ('when he holds me in his arms, he whispers to me, i see la vie en rose' etc.), a love song about a man.

Attila, My Attila! by Edith Cooper