Robert Lowell In Context

Thomas Austenfeld is Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland. He is the author of American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman (2001), the editor of Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century (2008), of Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver (2010), of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts (2015), and of Robert Lowell in a New Century (2019). Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor of English and the director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres and Robert Frost's Political Body. He has published in such journals as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Partial Answers, and College Literature. Most recently, he has coedited, with Steven G. Axelrod, Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2022).

Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction. Robert Lowell in Context; Part I. Places: 1. Boston Grzegorz Kosc; 2. The American south Joseph Kuhn; 3. New York Jeffrey Gray; 4. England and Ireland Tony Roberts; Part II. American Politics, American Wars: 5. War Walt Hunter; 6. US presidency Alex Runchman; 7. Ecoconsciousness Adam Beardsworth; Part III. Some Literary Models: 8. Classics John Talbot; 9. Melville Stephen Matterson; 10. Plaints Meg Tyler; Part IV. Contemporaries: Modernists and Beyond: 11. T. S. Eliot Stephen Regan; 12. Ezra pound Richard Parker; 13. John Berryman Philip Coleman; 14. Warren and Jarrell Joan Romano Shifflett; 15. Elizabeth Bishop Thomas Travisano; Part V. Life, Illness, and the Arts: 16. Religion Thomas Austenfeld; 17. Marriage Lucy Collins; 18. Desensationalizing madness Astrid Franke; 19. Photography Anita Helle; 20. Painting Diederik Oostdijk; Part VI. Reputation and New Contexts: 21. Letters Calista McRae; 22. Whiteness Nikki Skillman; 23. Appropriation Hannah Baker Saltmarsh; 24. 'Raw' poets Andrew Epstein; 25. Lowell's influence Steven Gould Axelrod; 26. Language and post-language poets Kacper Bartczak; Further reading; Index.