Elizabeth Bishop in Context

Elizabeth Bishop is increasingly recognised as one of the twentieth century's most original writers. Consisting of thirty-five ground-breaking essays by an international team of authors, including biographers, literary critics, poets and translators, this volume addresses the biographical and literary inception of Bishop's originality, from her formative upbringing in New England and Nova Scotia to long residences in New York, France, Florida and Brazil. Her poetry, prose, letters, translations and visual art are analysed in turn, followed by detailed studies of literary movements such as surrealism and modernism that influenced her artistic development. Bishop's encounters with nature, music, psychoanalysis and religion receive extended treatment, likewise her interest in dreams and humour. Essays also investigate the impact of twentieth-century history and politics on Bishop's life writing, and what it means to read Bishop via eco-criticism, postcolonial theory and queer studies.

Author: Angus Cleghorn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/26/2021
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.83lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.06d
ISBN: 9781108495974


Review Citation(s):
Choice 08/01/2022

About the Author
Cleghorn, Angus: - Angus Cleghorn is editor of three books on Elizabeth Bishop: Elizabeth Bishop in the 21st Century: Reading the New Editions (2012), The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014), and Elizabeth Bishop and the Music of Literature (2019). He co-organized an 'Elizabeth Bishop in Paris' conference at the Sorbonne in 2018.Ellis, Jonathan: - Jonathan Ellis is the author or editor of four books on Elizabeth Bishop, including Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop (2006), The Cambridge Companion to Elizabeth Bishop (2014), and Letter Writing Among Poets (2015). He is also the author of a map of Elizabeth Bishop's Paris (2018).