Carmen Sylva’s Britain: Her Vision, Her Legacy
Carmen Sylva’s Britain: Her Vision, Her Legacy

Author(s): LAURA NIXON
Subject(s): Cultural history, Aesthetics, Social history, 19th Century, Theory of Literature, British Literature, Sociology of Literature
Published by: Addleton Academic Publishers
Keywords: Carmen Sylva; Britishness; poetry; literary creativity; cultural identity; poet-Queen; British culture; literary genius; national representation; transnational literature;
Summary/Abstract: This chapter investigates the writing of Carmen Sylva, within the context of creativity, poetry and the concept of Britishness. It considers key poems from her oeuvre that were “British-facing”, focused on spaces, places and key literary figures. It argues that Sylva used well-know, established aspects of British culture to connect with the broader concepts of literary genius and creativity; a self-conscious technique that connected with her own reputation as “poet-Queen” but also allowed her to represent successful British creativity as tied to history, to nature and to human experience.

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