Borderlands: The art and scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney Hardcover – January 10, 2022

Publisher: The Vaughan AssociationBook Description:Borderlands: The Art and Scholarship of Louise Imogen Guiney, published by The Vaughan Association, is the first edited collection of original essays ever published on Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920), Irish American poet, essayist, editor, literary critic, and epistolist, and the first volume to anthologise an annotated selection of her poetry, essays, and letters. The eight original chapters address Guiney’s biography, transatlantic life, poems, essays, relationship to the Stuart past, volume on fairy lore, and revival of interest in the poet Henry Vaughan and influence on studies and editions of his works. Eight scholars from Canada, the United States, and Britain have contributed to this centenary volume: Patricia J. Fanning, Libby MacDonald Bischof, Holly Faith Nelson, Katharine Bubel, Bridget M. Chapman, Alex Murray, Robert Wilcher, and Jonathan Nauman. During her life in Boston and Britain, Guiney composed seventeen volumes of poetry and prose, contributed to many periodicals, edited and translated literary and religious texts, and wrote thousands of letters, many to and about central fin-de-siècle literary figures. She was an intimate of Sarah Orne Jewett and a protégé of Annie Adams Fields. Willa Cather praised her work as exemplary of the best American poetry of the time. She was also associated with the counter-cultural aesthetic movement in turn-of-the century Boston and, while in Oxford, was active in its vibrant Roman Catholic subculture. Review:"This is a timely and welcome centenary volume. It combines essays on the fascinating Louise Imogen Guiney … with a helpful and judicious selection of her own writings in prose and verse." ~ Helen Wilcox, Ph.D., Bangor University"An excellent and very readable introduction to the life and work of an understudied but important literary voice. By recovering Guiney’s writing for contemporary readers, this volume offers insight into the fascinating transitional era between the Victorian and Modernist worlds." ~ Laura N. Van Dyke, Ph.D., Trinity Western UniversityAbout the Author:Jonathan Nauman, Ph.D. has taught at colleges in Pennsylvania and New England and has published widely on George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Louise Imogen Guiney, and Gwenllian Morgan.Holly Faith Nelson, Ph.D., Professor of English and Co-Director of the Gender Studies Institute at Trinity Western University, has published on the lives and works of women from the late medieval period to the present. Read more