Kathryn Kirkpatrick (born Columbia, South Carolina in 1957) [1] is a poet, scholar, and English professor at Appalachian State University. Her works of poetry focus on the natural world and the ways humans interact with nature, and the ethical treatment of animals. As an academic, she also specializes in Irish literature and culture, which is a common theme in her published works. [2] She has received several awards for her poetry collections.
Born into a military family, Kirkpatrick grew up in the Philippines, Texas, Germany, and the Carolinas. [2] She received her B.A. in English from Winthrop University, her M.A. in English from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. in Theories of Interpretation from Emory University. [3]
Her works include seven poetry collections: The Body's Horizon (1996), Beyond Reason (2004), Out of the Garden (2007), Unaccountable Weather (2011), Our Held Animal Breath (2012), Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful (2014), and The Fisher Queen: New & Selected Poems (2019). [4] She has also written two chapbooks entitled Looking for Ceilidh and The Master's Wife. [5] Kirkpatrick places great emphasis on the ethical treatment of animals and explores the ways in which these issues overlap with human societal and cultural conflict. [2]
Her poetry has been featured in a number of anthologies and other publications, including Facing the Change: Personal Encounters with Global Warming; Animal Companions, Animal Doctors, Animal People; Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses; The Carol Adams Reader; Don't Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review; and Poetry from Sojourner: A Feminist Anthology. Her academic essays have been published in New Hibernia Review; Eire-Ireland; An Sionnach; Canadian Journal of Irish Studies; and Irish University Review. [6]
Kirkpatrick has explored feminist and ecofeminist themes within her works, as well as societal perceptions of womanhood as women age. Kirkpatrick is a breast cancer survivor and writes about her experience in her 2011 poetry collection, Unaccountable Weather.
She is an English professor at Appalachian State University. Her profile on the university's English Department webpage lists her specialties as poetry and poetics, Irish literature and culture, ecocriticism and ecofeminism, and animal studies. [3]
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She was awarded the N.C. Poetry Society's Brockman-Campbell Award for her poetry collections, The Body's Horizon (1997), Our Held Animal Breath (2013), and Her Small Hands Were Not Beautiful (2015). [7] The North Carolina Literary and Historical Association awarded her with the Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize for her poetry collections, Beyond Reason (2004) and The Fisher Queen (2019). [8] Her book, Out of the Garden (2007), was a finalist for the Southern Independent Booksellers Association poetry award.
Maria Edgeworth was a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics, and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today is most commonly associated with Castle Rackrent, her first novel, in which she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class.
Castle Rackrent is a short novel by Maria Edgeworth published in 1800. Unlike many of her other novels, which were heavily "edited" by her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, before their publication, the published version is close to her original intention.
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1800.
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