Women peasant poets in eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany : milkmaids on Parnassus /

This is the first comparative study of a highly unlikely group of authors: eighteenth-century women peasants in England, Scotland, and Germany, women who, as a rule, received little or no formal education and lived by manual labor, many of them in dire poverty. Among them are the English washerwoman...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kord, Susanne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2003.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
1700-1799
European poetry > 18th century > History and criticism.
European poetry > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > Europe > History > 18th century.
Peasants as authors > Europe.
Poésie européenne > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Europe > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Paysans écrivains.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Women Authors.
European poetry.
European poetry > Women authors.
Peasants as authors.
Women and literature.
Gedichten.
Boerinnen.
Europe.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""CONTENTS ""; ""LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ""; ""INTRODUCTION: Aesthetic Evasions and Social Consequences""; ""1: Back to Nature: Bourgeois Aesthetic Theory and Lower-Class Poetic Practice""; ""Visionaries: The Artist As Servant, God, or Vegetable""; ""Window Shoppers: The Servant As Artist""; ""2: The Wild and the Civilized: Poet Making""; ""The Wages of Suffering and the Wages of Sin: Class Issues and Literary Patronage""; ""“Menial Maids, with No Release from Toilâ€?: Some Paradigms""
  • ""€œThe Poetâ€?s Silence is the Triumph of Tasteâ€?: The Case of Anna Louisa Karsch""""“Drive Your Cows from the Foot of Parnassusâ€?: The Case of Ann Yearsley""; ""3: The Life As the Work: Counterfeit Confessions, Bogus Biographies, Literary Lives""; ""Arcadian Shepherdesses and Toiling Peasants: On Poetry and Poverty""; ""The German Sappho: Controversies Surrounding a Legend""; ""A Man or a Mother? Anna Louisa Karsch Forgets Her Gender""; ""Beauty and the Beasts: Fairy Tale Imagery""; ""Unhappy Endings: Biographical Punishment""
  • ""4: A Literature of Labor: Poetic Images of Country Life""""Physical Labor and Poetic “Idlenessâ€?""; ""Rural Realities I: Pastoral Landscapes and Village Scenes""; ""Rural Realities II: The Rustic at Work""; ""Pastorals and Power: Social and Aesthetic Considerations""; ""5: Inspired by Nature, Inspired by Love: Two Poets on Poetic Inspiration""; ""The Rural Muse: On Nature Inspiration and Book Learning""; ""Under Loveâ€?s Spell: Authors and Readers""; ""6: Of Patrons and Critics: Reading the Bourgeois Reader""; ""Reading the Reader: Of Critics and Posterity""
  • Castle-Building: Of Patrons and Their Empty PromisesCONCLUSION: On the Gender and Class of Art
  • APPENDIX: Short Biographies of Women Peasant Poets
  • WORKS CITED
  • INDEX

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