A history of Irish women's poetry / edited by Ailbhe Darcy, David Wheatley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Darcy, Ailbhe, 1981- editor.

Wheatley, David, 1970- editor.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

English poetry--Irish authors.

English poetry--Women authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xv, 476 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Summary:

"In the millennial year 2000, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin published an essay on the nineteenth-century poet Speranza, claiming her as a foremother. Ní Chuilleanáin asks: 'what use are our female predecessors to us as writers, what is the function of model, teacher, exemplar?' What Irish women poets seek when they conjure foremothers is continuity: a 'women's tradition' that legitimises the writing of their own poetry; influence aside, a sense of 'the woman writer as embodied, creative agent in the process of textual production,' to use Jennie Batchelor's phrase. When Ní Chuilleanáin considers Speranza as a foremother, she remarks that Speranza's life has mattered to her as much as her work and: if we are to consider the importance of her example for women writers of a later generation, it's partly in that lesson, that it is possible to have a warm and generous character and to look after and remain close to one's children while holding on to the egotism that makes one a writer. It's both as a person and as the kind of writer she is that she functions as exemplar and ancestor. Women writers of the past are useful to women writers of the present in part because they legitimise the business of writing; we can look to the busy women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and imagine a life and maybe even a livelihood that comprehends the art"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Women in the Medieval Poetry Business / Mairin Nt Dhonnchadha

2. Seventeenth-Century Women's Poetry in Ireland / Sarah McKibben

3. The Oral Tradition / Triona Nt Shwchain

4. Archipelagic Ireland: Women's Anglophone Poetry from the Eighteenth Century / Sarah Prescott

5. Irish Romanticism / Catherine Jones

6. Mary Tighe in Life, Myth, and Literary Vicissitude / Stephen Behrendt

7. Masculinity, Nationhood, and the Irish Woman Poet, 1860-1922 / Lucy Collins

8. The Eclipse of Dora Sigerson / Matthew Campbell

9. Between Revivalist Lyric and Irish Modernism / Sarah Bennett

10. The Other `Northern Renaissance' / Jaclyn Allen

11. Rematriating Mid-Century Modernism: Carla Lanyon Lanyon / Moynagh Sullivan

12. Accidental Irishness and the Transnational Legacy of Lola Ridge / Daniel Tobin

13. Crisis and Renewal: Irish-Language Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / Daniela Theinovd

14. The Poetry of Maire Mhac an tSaoi and the Indivisibility of Love / Patricia Coughlan

15. Biddy Jenkinson: Voices from Limbo / David Wheatley

16. Bilingual Poetry / Kenneth Keating

17. Catholicism in Modern Irish Women's Poetry / Catriona Clutterbuck

18. 1970S-80S Feminism / Kit Fryatt

19. The Art of Fabrication: Reading Eilean Ni Chuilleanain / Maria Johnston

20. Eavan Boland, History and Silence / Guinn Batten

21. Paula Meehan and the Public Poem / Kathryn Kirkpatrick

22. Formalism and Contemporary Women's Poetry / Tara McEvoy

23. `A Song Said Otherwise': Susan Howe, Maggie O'Sullivan, Catherine Walsh / Nerys Williams

24. Contemporary Irish Women's Poetry, beyond the Now / Anne Mulhall.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: History of Irish women's poetry.

ISBN:

9781108478700

1108478700

9781108746106

1108746101

OCLC:

1226566624