The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930 (Gender and Genre)

Throughout history the poetic muse has tended to be (a passive) female and the poet male. This dynamic caused problems for late Victorian and twentieth-century women poets; how could the muse be reclaimed and moved on from the passive role of old? Parker looks at fin-de-si?cle and modernist lyric poets to investigate how they overcame these challenges and identifies three key strategies: the reconfiguring of the muse as a contemporary instead of a historical/mythological figure; the muse as a male figure; and an interchangeable poet/muse relationship, granting agency to both.

• | Author: Sarah Parker
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Jan 21, 2016
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1138662186
• | ISBN-13: 9781138662186