The lively comedy of this novel in which a young woman comes of age amid the distractions and temptations of London high society belies the challenges it poses to the conventions of courtship, the dependence of women, and the limitations of domesticity. Contending with the perils and the varied cast of characters of the marriage market, Belinda strides resolutely toward independence. Admired by her contemporary, Jane Austen, and later by Thackeray and Turgenev, Edgeworth tackles issues of gender and race in a manner at once comic and thought-provoking. The 1802 text used in this edition also confronts the difficult and fascinating issues of racism and mixed marriage, which Edgeworth toned down in later editions.

Belinda (Oxford World's Classics)

Literature & Fiction

EDGEWORTH, Maria

Kirkpatrick, Kathryn

Literary

Oxford University Press

Poetry. In a dark world of loss, betrayal and regret, Kathryn Kirkpatrick powerfully reveals experiences that we find recognizable yet surprising. These poems weave together the obsessions of a woman's mind with the physical passion she experiences. Kirkpatrick's is an authentic and sometimes painfully truthful voice. By writing with such fervor, she ensures that OUT OF THE GARDEN lingers in the readers' minds long after first reading the text. Raised in the nomadic subculture of the U.S. military, Kathryn Kirkpatrick was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and grew up in the Phillipines, Germany, Texas and the Carolinas. Today she lives with her husband and two shelties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina where she is Professor of English at Appalachian State University. She holds a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Emory University, where she received an Academy of American Poets poetry prize.

Out of the Garden

Poetry

Mayapple Press

The Master's Wife

Hines, Jessica

March Street Pr

Kathryn Kirkpatrick's tour de force, Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful, proves once and for all that the scholar's detective work can serve the poet's task. With eloquence and intelligence, Kirkpatrick has handcrafted a collage of words and phrases actually spoken by the friends and relations of the magnificent and mysterious Maud Gonne, muse of W. B. Yeats. Anyone fascinated by the Irish past will be glued to the remarkable title poem of this, Kirkpatrick's sixth book, as well as by the lyrical tales that precede it, amusingly titled "Yeats Plays Golf" and "Maeve Married." Whether mythic or human, figures are made palpable in Kirkpatrick's magic, elegant hands. --MOLLY PEACOCK

Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful

Clemson University Press

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)

Faragó, Borbála

British & Irish

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Animals in Irish Literature and Culture spans the early modern period to the present, exploring colonial, post-colonial, and globalized manifestations of Ireland as country and state as well as the human animal and non-human animal migrations that challenge a variety of literal and cultural borders.

Drawing together poems from six award-winning collections, Kirkpatrick introduces the best of her poetry with the voice of the Fisher Queen, the otherworldly spouse of the Fisher King. Hers is a story of wounding, equal to her husband's, and just as connected to a wasteland, figured here as 20th and 21st century environmental devastation. These poems explore the multiple exiles of living in a woman's body; traversing boundaries of region, nation, and class; and confronting human violations of the natural world. Moving between the quotidian and the mythic, Kirkpatrick's multi-voiced lyrics constitute a powerful quest. Kathryn Kirkpatrick holds a Ph.D. from Emory University, where she received an Academy of American Poets poetry prize. She lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and teaches at Appalachian State University. Three of her collections of poetry have won the NC Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell award, one received the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize from the NC Literary and Historical Association, and another was a finalist for the SIBA poetry award.

The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems

Salmon Poetry

Our Held Animal Breath

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