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 | | The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796 by Donna Landry ISBN-10: 9780521374125 ISBN-10: 0-521-37412-X ISBN-13: 9780521374125 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-37412-5 Hardcover 1990-10-26 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product 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. | ||
Book Description In this original and challenging study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglected laboring-class women poets in the eighteenth century provokes a reassessment of our ideas concerning the literature of the period. The innovative poetic achievements of these plebeian women writers constitute an exciting literary discovery. | ||