Muses of Resistance

Name: Muses of Resistance
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521374125
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Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796

Autor: Donna Landry

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Väzba: Pevná

Vydavateľ: Cambridge University Press

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In this challenging 1990 study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglec...

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Autor

Donna Landry

Jazyk

Angličtina

Väzba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydalo

1990

Stránok

336

EAN

9780521374125

ISBN

052137412X

Enbook ID

02028831

Vydavateľ

Cambridge University Press

Hmotnosť

736

Rozmery

177 x 253 x 24

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In this challenging 1990 study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglected careers of laboring-class women poets in the eighteenth century provokes a reassessment of our ideas concerning the literature of the period. Poets such as the washerwoman Mary Collier, the milkwoman Ann Yearsley, the domestic servants Mary Leapor and Elizabeth Hands, the dairywoman Janet Little, and the slave Phyllis Wheatley can be seen adapting the conventions of polite verse for the purposes of social criticism. Some of their strategies relate to earlier texts, revealing ideological blind spots in the tropes of male poets. Elsewhere, they made interesting innovations in poetic form. Mary Leapor's 'Crumble Hall', for instance, by attending to sexual politics, extends the critique of aristocratic privilege in the country-house poem beyond that of Pope and Crabbe. In Ann Yearsley's verse, landscape description, historical narrative, and philosophical meditation are infused with political comment. Historically important, technically impressive and often aesthetically innovative, the poetic achievements of these plebeian women writers constitute an exciting literary discovery.

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