Introduction, The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry
Date
2010
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Type
Book chapter
Peer reviewed
Yes
Abstract
The Introduction surveys the developments in publishing and criticism then sets a vision for the book. The chapters that follow address gender without reducing women's poetry to simply a gendered artefact. Posts to be considered include Edith Sitwell, Jo Shapcott, Selima Hill, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, Eavan Boland, Imtiaz Dharker and Carol Ann Duffy
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Modernist and Postmodern poetry, war poetry, verbal and visual representation, confessional poetry, transatlantic women's poetry, post-pastoral, experimental women's poetry, intercutluralism
Citation
Dowson, J. (2010) Introduction. In: Dowson, J. ed. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press