| The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739 1796 Contributor(s): Landry, Donna (Author) |
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ISBN: 052137412X ISBN-13: 9780521374125 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Social Science | Gender Studies - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 821.509 |
| LCCN: 89025216 |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (1.62 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this original and challenging 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 Jane Little, and the slave Phillis Wheatley can be seen employing various methods to adapt the conventions of polite verse for the purposes of social criticism. Historically important, technically impressive, and aesthetically innovative, the poetic achievements of these working class- women writers constitute an exciting literary discovery. |
