@inbook{07e89cf610964bbeafaa9e7a8d375aaa,
title = "Charlotte Mew as a Tragic Poet",
abstract = "This chapter responds to the tragic intensity of Charlotte Mew{\textquoteright}s writing. It considers the relationship between the muted unhappiness of her life and the extravagance of her literary style. Through readings of a series of poems, including {\textquoteleft}In Nunhead Cemetry,{\textquoteright} {\textquoteleft}Ken,{\textquoteright} {\textquoteleft}The F{\^e}te,{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}Madeleine in Church,{\textquoteright} it shows how Mew discovered in the dramatic monologue a form in which to observe, with a mixture of compassion and restraint, the suffering and loneliness that distort the lives of her characters.",
author = "Andrew Hodgson",
year = "2024",
month = sep,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-62542-8_4",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031625411",
series = "Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "65--85",
editor = "Francesca Bratton and Megan Girdwood and Fraser Riddell",
booktitle = "Charlotte Mew",
edition = "1",
}