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The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739 1796

The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739 1796

Landry, Donna

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0521021952
ISBN13: 9780521021951
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 3 2005
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.18
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English
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.

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