Heaney’s hauntings: Archaeology, poetry and the ‘gendered bog'

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dc.contributor.authorEverett, Rosie
dc.contributor.authorGearey, Benjamin R.
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-05T13:32:06Z
dc.date.available2020-11-05T13:32:06Z
dc.date.issued2020-09-22
dc.date.updated2020-11-03T13:24:58Z
dc.description.abstractIn this paper we discuss the entangled relationship between literary creation, archaeology and representations of gender in the poetry of Seamus Heaney, in particular the ‘bog poems’ The Tollund Man and Bogland. We trace the early formative connections between the poet, peatlands and ‘bog body’ research, in which both literary critical and archaeological scholars have analysed themes including ‘the bog as archive’, theory and practice of archaeology and the process of poetic creation and imagining in Heaney’s writings. We discuss archaeological perspectives on Heaney’s poetry, and outline literary critique that has problematised the representation of gender in the ‘bog poems’. Finally, we consider the poem Bogland and read this through the lens of Irish peatland archaeology, in particular its destruction by industrial peat extraction. To conclude, we reflect how Heaney’s poetry as a form of archaeological knowledge and narratives must continue to be subject to ‘excavation’, contextual readings and critique.en
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dc.identifier.citationEverett, R. and Gearey, B. (2020) 'Heaney’s Hauntings: Archaeology, Poetry and the ‘Gendered Bog’', Journal of Wetland Archaeology, (12 pp). doi: 10.1080/14732971.2020.1823148en
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14732971.2020.1823148en
dc.identifier.endpage12en
dc.identifier.issn1473-2971
dc.identifier.journaltitleJournal of Wetland Archaeologyen
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/10736
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor and Francisen
dc.relation.urihttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14732971.2020.1823148
dc.rights© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Wetland Archaeology on 22 Sep 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14732971.2020.1823148020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Wetland Archaeology on 22 Sep 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14732971.2020.1823148en
dc.subjectArchaeologyen
dc.subjectPoetryen
dc.subjectBog bodiesen
dc.subjectSeamus Heaneyen
dc.titleHeaney’s hauntings: Archaeology, poetry and the ‘gendered bog'en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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