A History of Irish Women's Poetry
- Editors:
- Ailbhe Darcy, Cardiff University
- David Wheatley, University of Aberdeen
- Date Published: July 2021
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108478700
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A History of Irish Women's Poetry is a ground-breaking and comprehensive account of Irish women's poetry from earliest times to the present day. It reads Irish women's poetry through many prisms – mythology, gender, history, the nation – and most importantly, close readings of the poetry itself. It covers major figures, such as Máire Mhac an tSaoi, Eavan Boland, Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, as well as neglected figures from the past. Writing in both English and Irish is considered, and close attention paid to the many different contexts in which Irish women's poetry has been produced and received, from the anonymous work of the early medieval period, through the bardic age, the coterie poets of Anglo-Ireland, the nationalist balladeers of Young Ireland, the Irish Literary Revival, and the advent of modernity. As capacious as it is diverse, this book is an essential contribution to scholarship in the field.
Read more- Combines detailed literary history and theory with close readings of a huge range of texts
- Contains points of entry for readers at every level – texts, contexts, background, history, theory
- Covers Irish Women's poetry from earliest times to the present day
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'Thanks to ground-breaking volumes such as this one, the radiant light of women's poetry will no longer be extinguished and obscured. One of the achievements of this volume is the decision to describe the literary scene not only by drawing on well-known major figures but also by including often overlooked or under-researched writers, depicting a cultural panorama of complexity and multiplicity. ' Pilar Villar-Argáiz, Estudios Irlandeses
See more reviews'a comprehensive overview covering everything from medieval Ireland to the present day.' Erin Cunningham, Times Literary Supplement
'… highly recommended …' Pauline Harrison, Women's Writing
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- Date Published: July 2021
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781108478700
- length: 1 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 160 x 32 mm
- weight: 0.85kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: why foremothers? Ailbhe Darcy and David Wheatley
1. The reception of Irish women poets Anne Fogarty
2. Women in the medieval poetry business Máirín Ní Dhonnchadha
3. Seventeenth century women's poetry in Ireland Danielle Clarke and Sarah McKibben
4. The oral tradition Tríona Ni Shíocháin
5. Archipelagic Ireland: women's anglophone poetry from the eighteenth century Sarah Prescott
6. Irish Romanticism Catherine Jones
7. Mary Tighe in life, myth, and literary vicissitude Stephen Behrendt
8. Masculinity, nationhood and the Irish woman poet, 1860–1922 Lucy Collins
9. The eclipse of Dora Sigerson Matthew Campbell
10. Between revivalist lyric and Irish modernism Sarah Bennett
11. The other 'northern renaissance' Jaclyn Allen
12. Rematriating mid-century modernism: Carla Lanyon Lanyon Moynagh Sullivan
13. Accidental Irishness and the transnational legacy of Lola Ridge Daniel Tobin
14. Crisis and renewal: Irish-language poetry in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Daniela Theinová
15. The poetry of Máire Mhac an tSaoi and the indivisibility of love Patricia Coughlan
16. Voices from limbo: Biddy Jenkinson David Wheatley
17. Bilingual poetry Kenneth Keating
18. Catholicism in modern Irish women's poetry Catriona Clutterbuck
19. 1970s–80s feminism Kit Fryatt
20. The art of fabrication: reading Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin Maria Johnston
21. Eavan Boland, history and silence Guinn Batten
22. Paula Meehan and the public poem Kathryn Kirkpatrick
23. Formalism and contemporary women's poetry Tara McEvoy
24. Susan Howe, Maggie O'Sullivan, Catherine Walsh Nerys Williams
25. Irish women's poetry beyond the now Anne Mulhall.
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