Amy Lowell, Diva Poet

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2011 - Literary Criticism - 177 pages
Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and the dismissal of her work after her death. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs, newspapers and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical interpretations of her poetry that have often characterized criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw restores Lowell to her rightful place as a powerful writer and impresario of modernist verse.
 

Contents

Construction of a Persona
27
Selling AvantGarde Poetics
47
Americanism and Gender
77
Lowells Love Poems and
109
Eleonora Duse in Lowells Poetry
131
Whatever Happened to Amy Lowell?
153
Index
171
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Melissa Bradshaw teaches English at Loyola University Chicago, USA.

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