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The muses of resistance : laboring-class women's poetry in Britain, 1739-1796
- Title
- The muses of resistance : laboring-class women's poetry in Britain, 1739-1796 / Donna Landry.
- Author
- Landry, Donna.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR555.W6 L36 1990 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 325 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
- Subject
- 1700-1799
- English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism
- English poetry > Women authors > History and criticism
- Working class writings, English > History and criticism
- Political poetry, English > History and criticism
- Pastoral poetry, English > History and criticism
- Feminism and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 18th century
- Working class women > Great Britain > Intellectual life
- Feminist poetry, English > History and criticism
- Working class in literature
- English poetry
- English poetry > Women authors
- Feminism and literature
- Feminist poetry, English
- Pastoral poetry, English
- Political poetry, English
- Women and literature
- Working class women > Intellectual life
- Working class writings, English
- English poetry > Women authors > History and criticism. > 18th century
- Poésie populaire > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire et critique
- Poétesses > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle
- Poésie anglaise > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique
- Poésie anglaise > Femmes écrivains > Histoire et critique
- Travailleuses > Grande-Bretagne > 18e siècle
- Poétesses anglaises > 18e siècle
- Great Britain
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Sensibility and slavery: the discourse or working-women's verse: Textuality and subjectivity, the politics of unfettered female genius. The unhappy alliance of Ann Yearsley and Hannah More: a parable for feminism. Pastoral and georgic transformations. Disputing the rule of the fathers. Versifying the Scriptures. That ravishing supplement -- The resignation of Mary Collier: some problems in feminist literary history. Reading The Woman's Labour. Patronage and conservatism -- A English Sappho brilliant, young and dead? Mary Leapor laughs at the fathers. The "sapphic" muse. Patronage and patronizing relations. Reading Crumble-Hall -- The complex contradictions of Ann Yearsley: working-class writer, bourgeois subject: The "savage" muse. The pleasures of the text -- with a vengeance. Domesticating the political and the politics of domesticity -- Laboring in pastures new: the two Elizabeths: Elizabeth Hands on the pastoral. Elizabeth Bentley, the "Norwich maiden". -- Other others: the marginality of cultural difference: Janet Little breaks into Scots. Slavery and sensibility: Phillis Wheatley within the fracture -- The 1790s and after: revolutions that as yet have no model: "Revolutionary women" in Britain as impure contradiction. Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More reconsidered. Feminist and democratic ideology at the limit. The Turkish prejudice. A shifting limit: Wollstonecraft's The Wrongs of Woman: Or, Maria. A Fragment. After 1800: from class combativeness to the dejection of Ann Candler and the conservatism of Elizabeth Bentley.
- ISBN
- 052137412X
- 9780521374125
- LCCN
- 89025216
- OCLC
- ocm20561436
- 20561436
- SCSB-1924522
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library