Books written by Mary Jacobus

  • Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint

    Fitzgerald, Catullan Provocations: Lyric Poetry and the Drama of Position (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995), 185. 84. “Catullus' great gift is that of revealing the essentials of his psyche” (Gregory, Poems of Catullus, ...

  • Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

    unnoticed, because it beats constantly, sweeping together the loose tacks of sound I remember walking once into increasing woods, my hearing like a widening wound. first your voice and then the resulting ceasing. the last glow of rain ...

  • Romantic Things: A Tree, a Rock, a Cloud

    See John Barrell, The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting, 1730–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980). 23. See John Barrell, The Idea of Landscape and the Sense of Place, 1730–1840: An Approach to ...

  • The Poetics of Psychoanalysis: In the Wake of Klein

    The self-reflexive turn in Bion's psychoanalytic thinking about 'learning from experience' did not at once emerge as the ... No Ordinary Psychoanalyst: The Exceptional Contributions of John Rickman (London: Karnac Books, 2003), 1–68.

  • Body/Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science

    This groundbreaking collection addresses such scientific issues as artificial fertilization, the "crisis" in childbirth management,and the medical invention of "female" maladies and the debates surrounding them.

  • Women Writing and Writing about Women

    United by a common focus on writing by and about women, this collection of contemporary essays, spanning the novel, poetry, drama, film and criticism, emphasises some of the problems of theory and practice posed by writing as a woman and by ...

  • Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798)

    Tradition and Experiment in Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads (1798)

  • Reading Cy Twombly: Poetry in Paint

    How does poetic reference in largely abstract works affect their interpretation? Reading Cy Twombly is the first book to focus specifically on the artist’s use of poetry.

  • First Things: Reading the Maternal Imaginary

    The invocation of writings by Kleist, Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Malthus and de Sade, along with analysis of French revolutionary iconography and Realist and Impressionist paintings by Eakins and Morisot, make this wide-ranging text a ...