Books by Tracy Seeley
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... National Review 85). Meredith imagines Matthew Arnold marvelling at Meynell's essays, Pa... more ... National Review 85). Meredith imagines Matthew Arnold marvelling at Meynell's essays, Page 3. ALICE MEYNELL, ESSAYIST 107 "She can write!" and Carlyle exclaiming, "That woman thinks!" (93). The imagined approbation ...
Women's Studies, 1998
... National Review 85). Meredith imagines Matthew Arnold marvelling at Meynell's essays, Pa... more ... National Review 85). Meredith imagines Matthew Arnold marvelling at Meynell's essays, Page 3. ALICE MEYNELL, ESSAYIST 107 "She can write!" and Carlyle exclaiming, "That woman thinks!" (93). The imagined approbation ...
Prairie Schooner, 2010
... E-ISSN: 1542-426X Print ISSN: 0032-6682. DOI: 10.1353/psg.0.0388. Cartographies of Change. Tr... more ... E-ISSN: 1542-426X Print ISSN: 0032-6682. DOI: 10.1353/psg.0.0388. Cartographies of Change. Tracy Seeley. ... My daughter's hand-tinted photographs. My friend Estella's sculpture, a wire woman perched on the mantel. My Romaine Brooks print. ...
Literature Compass, 2006
The 1890s witnessed an explosion of interest in the metaphysical and other seventeenth-century po... more The 1890s witnessed an explosion of interest in the metaphysical and other seventeenth-century poets, a fact that warrants further scholarly exploration. This article outlines the background of the revival: the cultural and religious politics that shape mid-century commentary on the metaphysicals, and Coleridge's marginalia which rehabilitate the poets, especially Donne. It then presents an overview of criticism by Gosse, Symons, Meynell, Thompson, and Johnson, tracing the similarities and differences among aesthetic and decadent visions of the seventeenth century. Finally, it suggests a number of areas for new work on the topic. Fin-de-siècle critics admired traits common to the metaphysicals, cavaliers, and Sons of Ben, making little of the distinction we now make among them. The period's leading critics -Swinburne, Saintsbury, Symons, Gosse, Meynell,Thompson, and Johnson -wrote about them in books, letters, critical introductions, and the periodical press. Many poets, including Symons, Meynell,Thompson, Johnson, and Michael Field, wrote verse indebted to their seventeenth-century predecessors; we would no doubt find others, were we to look into the matter. In the past two decades scholars have reshaped the landscape we now recognize as fin-de-siècle culture. Work that has addressed issues of gender, empire, 3 sexuality, and class 4 has helpfully broadened the story of the 1890s well beyond the bounds of the decade once identified largely with the Rhymers' Club, the male Symbolist poets and Aesthetes, and the wit and martyrdom of Oscar Wilde. New work continues to appear on the women writers of the period, both aesthetes and New Women; 5 anthologies reflect this fuller accounting of who was writing, publishing, and exerting influence in the literary world; 6 attention to gender politics and sexuality has helped us to understand not only the active role that women played in literary culture, but has illuminated the relationship of homosexuality to university and literary culture; and in Ellis Hanson's book Decadence and Catholicism, has traced the intersecting vectors of homosexuality, decadent aesthetics, and Catholic conversion among decadent poets. 7 These socio-historical approaches to the fin-de-siècle have permanently altered and enriched what we know about the period.
Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 2010
... Among many highlights, James Galvin's poem No Bastion describes a childhood tree h... more ... Among many highlights, James Galvin's poem No Bastion describes a childhood tree house out on the prairie, a nesty thing, / where I could be up in the sky and close to the ground (35 ... Tracy Seeley. University of San Francisco. seeleyt{at}usfca.edu. © The Author(s) 2010. ...
Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, 2013
The 1890s witnessed an explosion of interest in the metaphysical and other seventeenth-century po... more The 1890s witnessed an explosion of interest in the metaphysical and other seventeenth-century poets, a fact that warrants further scholarly exploration. This article outlines the background of the revival: the cultural and religious politics that shape mid-century commentary on the metaphysicals, and Coleridge's marginalia which rehabilitate the poets, especially Donne. It then presents an overview of criticism by Gosse, Symons, Meynell, Thompson, and Johnson, tracing the similarities and differences among aesthetic and decadent visions of the seventeenth century. Finally, it suggests a number of areas for new work on the topic.
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