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The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry

Dowson was commissioned to create the Companion’s concept, which is to both consolidate and move on existing narratives about women’s literary techniques, as set out in her Introduction (8 pgs). The chapters are arranged in order of the century’s major cultural developments, Modernism, the Movement, the World Wars, Postmodernism and Postcolonialism, while also making connections between poets across categories and historical moments. Accordingly, Dowson’s chapter 5 ‘Towards a New Confessionalism: Elizabeth Jennings and Sylvia Plath’ (pp. 62-81) sets up new conceptual paradigms that connect British and American lyric traditions and practices, drawing on Jung’s theories of psychology and poetry.