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"Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow" : ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry
- Title
- "Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow" : ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry / Anne Milne.
- Author
- Milne, Anne.
- Publication
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- 176 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Lactilla Tends her Fav'rite Cow brings together issues of gender, class, and species through a study of a selection of poetry by five eighteenth-century British laboring-class women poets: Mary Collier, Mary Leapor, Elizabeth Hands, Ann Yearsley and Janet Little. Extending the feminist concept of "interlocking oppressions" to include a consideration of the link between women and animals, this study suggests, ecocritically, that representations of nature are always more than mere imagination. By pairing laboring-class women poets and domesticated animals to read their representations as manifestations of oppression, Milne shows that both laboring-class women and animals are contained by conceptualizations and/or domesticating strategies that typically characterize them as laboring machines, as "mad," and as pets. Lactilla Tends her Fav'rite Cow benefits from the foundations set by earlier studies of laboring-class writers even as it extends their conclusions through the use of an explicitly ecocritical perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
- Subjects
- Animals > Symbolic aspects
- Ecofeminism in literature
- English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism
- Ecocriticism
- Human-animal relationships in literature
- Working class writings, English > History and criticism
- Working class women in literature
- Animals in literature
- English poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. "The Captive Linnet" and the F(l)ight of the "natural Genius" -- 1. Ideologies of Domestication in Mary Leapor's "Man the Monarch" -- 2. Gender, Class, and the Beehive: Mary Collier's "The Woman's Labour" as Nature Poem -- 3. "We saw an heifer stray": Ecological Interconnection and Identification in Elizabeth Hands's "Written, originally extempore, on seeing a Mad Heifer run through the Village where the Author Lives" -- 4. The Silence of the Lamb: Rapture and Release in Ann Yearsley's "Written on a Visit" -- 5. Dogs and the "Talking Animal Syndrome" in Janet Little's "From Snipe, a Favourite Dog, To His Master" -- Conclusion: Towards an Eighteenth-Century Ecocentrism.
- ISBN
- 9780838756928 (alk. paper)
- 0838756921 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007038283
- 40015824133
- OCLC
- ocn173136174
- 173136174
- SCSB-5429513
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries