The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796Cambridge University Press, 1990 - 325 pàgines 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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Pàgina 94
... Freemantle , foremost among her female patrons , who appears in Leapor's verses as Artemisia . As a clergyman's daughter , Freemantle seems to have been well - bred without ostentation ; as a spinster whose father had died twenty - six ...
... Freemantle , foremost among her female patrons , who appears in Leapor's verses as Artemisia . As a clergyman's daughter , Freemantle seems to have been well - bred without ostentation ; as a spinster whose father had died twenty - six ...
Pàgina 95
... Freemantle goes so far as to worry whether her interest in Leapor might prove something of an annoyance to a young woman of the servant class , a cookmaid , who , sometime after her mother's death in 1742 and probably in the first six ...
... Freemantle goes so far as to worry whether her interest in Leapor might prove something of an annoyance to a young woman of the servant class , a cookmaid , who , sometime after her mother's death in 1742 and probably in the first six ...
Pàgina 300
... Freemantle was the second daughter of Thomas Freemantle , rector of Hinton from 1692 until his death in 1719 , and Mary Freemantle , daughter of John Newton , Gent . She and her mother lived together in Hinton , a small village " in ...
... Freemantle was the second daughter of Thomas Freemantle , rector of Hinton from 1692 until his death in 1719 , and Mary Freemantle , daughter of John Newton , Gent . She and her mother lived together in Hinton , a small village " in ...
Continguts
the discourse of workingwomens verse | 11 |
Pastoral and georgic transformations | 22 |
Disputing the rule of the fathers | 29 |
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