Victorian Literature and Culture

Contents of Volume 34

Number 2

Editors’ Topic: Fin-de-Siècle Literary Culture and Women Poets

Guest Editors: Marion Thain and Ana Parejo Vadillo

Introduction

Fin-de-Siècle Renaissance: Diversity, History, Modernity

MARION THAIN and ANA PAREJO VADILLO

Prelude

Alice Meynell’s Preludes, or Preludes to What Future Poetry?

LINDA H. PETERSON

The Victorian Legacy

Atheist Prophecy: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden, and the Victorian Poetess

CHARLES LAPORTE

Rapturous Forms: Mathilde Blind’s Darwinian Poetics

JASON R. RUDY

Modern Environments; Contemporary Politics

Murder in Mile End: Amy Levy, Jewishness, and the City

ALEX GOODY

Daughters of Danaus and Daphne: Women Poets and the Marriage Question

LINDA K. HUGHES

Dollie Radford and the Ethical Aesthetics of Fin-de-Siècle Poetry

RUTH LIVESEY

Expansive Poetry: Poetry and the Visual Arts

“The Armytage-Tomson-Watson Sequence”: Poetic Illustrations in the Periodical Press, 1886-96

JOSEPH BRISTOW

A Visual Field: Michael Field and the Gaze

HILARY FRASER

Translation: Boundary Crossing

Bengal, Britain, France: The Locutions and Translations of Toru Dutt

TRICIA LOOTENS

“Lady’s Greek”: (with the Accents): A Metrical Translation of Euripides by A. Mary F. Robinson

YOPIE PRINS

Decadence and Endings

“Ballads in Prose”: Genre Crossing in Late-Victorian Women’s Writing

MARGARET D. STETZ

“The Hectic Beauty of Decay”: Positivist Decadence in Mathilde Blind’s Late Poetry

JAMES DIEDRICK

Literary Pasts; Modernist Futures

Michael Field and Sapphic Fame: “My Dark-Leaved Laurels Will Endure”

FRANCIS O’GORMAN

"The Fair Light Mystery of Images": Alice Meynell's Metaphysical Turn

TRACY SEELEY