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

by Donna Landry

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521021952

ISBN13:9780521021951

Release Date:November 2005

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.18 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

English Literature Gender Studies Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Poetry Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Writing

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