Poetry Nouveau: Michael Field and the Art of the Book: Online Presentation (05/11/24)

ZOOM PRESENTATION ONLINE

Tuesday, November 5
12 noon
Poetry Nouveau: Michael Field and the Art of the Book
Zoom presentation online

Sign up at https://delart.org/event/zoom-talk-poetry-nouveau-michael-field-and-the-art-of-the-book/

With Ana Vadillo, Reader in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Birkbeck, University of London, and the 2024 University of Delaware Library/Delaware Art Museum Amy P. Goldman Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies 

Using the resources of the University of Delaware Library, the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, the Delaware Art Museum, and the Helen Farr Sloan Library and Archives, Ana Vadillo is here in Delaware carrying out research on the remarkable queer poets Michael Field (the joint pseudonym of aunt and niece Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper) and their relationship to Pre-Raphaelite artists and writers, the Arts and Crafts movement, and Decadence. This research supports her forthcoming book, Poetry in Polygamy: The Fine and Lesser Arts in Michael Field (Oxford University Press), the first study to consider decadent poetry’s engagement with the arts of the turn of the century, examining as well women poets’ connections with the Arts and Crafts movement, from Pre-Raphaelitism to Modernism. Vadillo’s informal presentation will focus on one aspect of her study, the art of bookbinding, which made Field’s books not only works of literature but also beautiful objects. 

This event will be hosted online by the Delaware Art Museum, with co-sponsorship by the University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press. 

Ana Vadillo (a.parejovadillo@bbk.ac.uk) is the Reader in Victorian Literature and Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on women’s poetry, aestheticism, and decadence. She has been the Director of the Birkbeck Centre for Victorian Studies and the General Editor of the journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Nineteenth-Century. Her most recent book is Michael Field, Decadent Moderns 1875– 1914 (2019). She is completing two books, the monograph Poetry in Polygamy, for Oxford University Press and the co-edited collection The Verse Dramas of Michael Field, for Cambridge University Press. 

Michael Field [Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper], The Tragic Mary. London: George Bell and Sons, 1889. The author’s copy. Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library, Museums and Press.

For more information about the annual Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, please see the following webpage: https://delart.org/opportunities/amy-p-goldman-fellowship-in-pre-raphaelite-studies/