Books
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (2017)
“Ladies’ Greek is the resounding answer to Woolf’s ‘On Not Knowing Greek.’ What was unleashed when women as well as men, on both sides of the Atlantic, came to intimately know their beloved Greek tragedies? Prins recreates the burgeoning culture of translation and re-enactment at women’s colleges, reviving enthusiasms of the forgotten and famous, from A. Mary F. Robinson to Elizabeth Barrett Browning. This is a definitive literary history that will influence future scholars, but any reader may binge on it like a beautiful BBC drama.”
-Alison Booth, University of Virginia
AWARDS
Robert Lowry Patten Prize in Nineteenth-Century Literature, awarded by SEL: Studies in English Literature
NAVSA Best Book Prize, awarded by North American Victorian Studies Association
Shortlist for the 2017 London Hellenic Prize
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS (1999)
“Victorian Sappho is one of the most scholarly and imaginative books on Victorian poetry to emerge in the past decade. It places Sappho within the context of Victorian poetics with an assurance arising from a fine grasp of ancient Greek texts, a subtle historical understanding, and above all a capacity to read the formal patterns of Victorian verse and metrics with a virtuosic combination of aesthetic insight and ideological understanding. An altogether innovative book.”
- Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck College, University of London
AWARDS
Sonya Rudikoff Prize for First Book in Victorian Studies, awarded by NEVSA: Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Honorable Mention for First Book Prize, awarded by MLA: Modern Language Association
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS (2014)
“Through an astute selection of essays and a series of brilliant commentaries on them, Jackson and Prins show that, although the way we conceive lyric is a recent invention that embodies a singularly modern and Western set of cultural ideas and values, we uphold lyric as the universal model of what poetry is and should be. Reading The Lyric Theory Reader is an exhilarating experience. In collecting what are arguably the most important modern statements about lyric, it opens up the diverse acuity of commentary on this most enduringly canonical of literary categories, and in that process encourages our most searching reflections on the historical existence of literary forms.”
-Michael McKeon, Rutgers University
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CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS (1997)
“Dwelling in Possibility is a splendid collaboration between poets and critics. Prins and Shreiber have interwoven sophisticated feminist critical essays with poetic meditations on genre and gender; the dialogues they set up are lyrically elegant as well as intellectual exhilarating. This collection not only sets a new standard for feminist theorizing about poetic genres, it performs the pleasures of feminist reading in all their diversity.”
-Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University
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THE FEMINIST PRESS (1998)
This bilingual anthology of over 100 poems by 45 women poets is a long-awaited new volume in the ground-breaking Defiant Muse series. The product of nearly ten years of research and translation, it includes poems by both well-known and rediscovered Dutch and Flemish poets, the majority of them available in English for the first time. The volume presents poems in the original language, with exquisite English translations on opposite pages.
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