"Kathleen Mavourneen" is an Irish ballad published in 1835 by Louisa Macartney Crawford, poet and contributor to Captain Frederick Marryat's London-based monthly <italic>Metropolitan Magazine</italic>. Set to music in 1837 by Frederick Nichols Crouch, the song achieved transatlantic acclaim, becoming an important part of nineteenth-century cultural memory. Despite the success of "Kathleen Mavourneen" and Crawford's other prolific contributions to the periodical press, Louisa Macartney Crawford is a now a forgotten voice in nineteenth-century women's poetry. In fact, her identity as the author of even this popular ballad is invoked only to authenticate the song's Irishness, despite her biography as a member of the British landed class. Through a postcolonial reading of <italic>Metropolitan Magazine</italic>, the context for Crawford's writing, and an analysis of her national ballads, I argue that Crawford appropriated an Irish identity to negotiate her role as a female writer, but, in doing so, created a slippage of subjectivity that reveals the complexity of nineteenth-century women's poetry.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TCU/oai:etd.tcu.edu:etd-04282010-132858 |
| Date | 28 April 2010 |
| Creators | Wilson, Kristi Marie |
| Contributors | Linda Hughes, NO SEARCH ENGINE ACCESS |
| Publisher | Texas Christian University |
| Source Sets | Texas Christian University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04282010-132858/ |
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