Maintaining a Place

MARIA STUART is lecturer in American Literature at UCD. Her main interests are in nineteenth-century American Literature, African American Literature and the cross fertilisation of Irish and American poetic concerns. Her current publications focus on the work of Emily Dickinson. She is editor (with Domhnall Mitchell) of The International Reception of Emily Dickinson (Continuum Reception Studies, 2009). FIONNGHUALA SWEENEY is senior lecturer in American Literature at Newcastle University. Her research concentrates on African American and Caribbean literature and visual culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, literary connections between Ireland and the Black Atlantic, and Afromodernism. FIONNUALA DILLANE is Llcturer in nineteenth-century literature at UCD with research interests in Victorian authorship and print cultures, Genre history and memory studies. Recent work includes Before George Eliot: Marian Evans and the Periodical Press (Cambridge University Press, 2013), joint winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, 2014.

'For native work in verse, fiction or criticism... we mean to maintain a place, insisting on that which we have not found insisted upon before, the essential contact between words and the locality that breeds them, in this case America' (William Carlos Williams);'Rich in content, Maintaining a Place is a wonderful exploration for students of English or just fans of American literature. Well crafted, the volume brings the reader on a journey that responds to current developments in literary studies.' UCD Today, Spring 2015

• Contributors; Maria Stuart, Fionnghuala Sweeney, Fionnuala Dillane, and John Brannigan: Introduction; Adam Kelly: To Reconcile the People and the Stones: Ron Callan, William Carlos Williams, and Rudy Wiebe's The Temptations of Big Bear; Maria Stuart: The Poetics of Disfluency: Emerson and Dickinson; Harry Clifton: The Dry-Souled Man (Yvor Winters 1900-68); J. C. C. Mays: Making it New: Coleridge, Pound, and Some 'New' Irish Poets; Stephen Wilson: The Burden of Records: Ezra Pound's Problematic Legacy; Peggy O'Brien: Permission to Burn (from 'Neighbors'); Lee M. Jenkins: 'the difference between Pluto and Plato': D. H. Lawrence, William Carlos Williams, and American Modernism; Stephen Matterson: Three beginnings: William Carlos Williams and In the American Grain; Michael Hinds: Anachronistic?: Sappho and William Carlos Williams Against the Clock; Nerys Wiliams: In Which; Philip McGowan: Reading Elizabeth Bishop's 'Artifact of [Words]'; Philip Coleman: 'Seeking quiddity': Seeing Things in the Poetry of Carl Rakosi; Ana Nunes: Ellen Gallagher's Portraits of the Black Atlantic; Frank McGuinness: The Mask and The Martyr: Lorraine Hansberry and Sean O'Casey; Declan Kiberd: Afterword; Bibliography; Index.