Eighteenth-Century Women Poets

Nation, Class, and Gender

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Shows how eighteenth-century women's literature redefined nation and culture in class and gendered terms.This book examines the poems of three Englishwomen-washerwoman Mary Collier, middle-class feminist polemicist Mary Scott, Bristol milkwoman Ann Yearsley, and Scottish dairywoman from Ayrshire, Janet Little. It questions how national identity might have influenced gender and class affiliations, and, reciprocally, how gender might have determined a nationalist impulse, particularly as it played out during the revolutionary period (1770-1800) in which most of the texts were written.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum1995-11-16
Mått148 x 226 x 11 mm
Vikt236 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Feminist Criticism and Theory
Antal sidor164
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791425121

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1. Introduction 2. Mary Collier: Women's Labor, Gender/Class Identity, and National Building 3. Mary Scott: Historicizing Women, (En)Gendering Cultural History 4. Ann Yearsley, the Published Writings:Gender, Patriotism, and Resistance 5. Ann Yearsley, the Unpublished Poems:Confrontation Unmediated, Empathy Undisguised 6. Janet Little, the Ayrshire Dairywoman:Gender, Class, and Scottish National Identity 7. Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

"I most admire this book's combination of a learned understanding of eighteenth-century British culture with a keen political astuteness and a sensitivity to the literary historical problems presented by working with women writers in the period. Ferguson brings her subjects alive through a judicious use of biographical and cultural contexts." — Donna Landry, Wayne State University"It is a lively and engaging book which will be of crucial interest to both eighteenth-century scholars and students of women's literature. It is based on exemplary research, both bringing to light previously undocumented texts, and providing fresh contexts for other still relatively underdiscussed texts." — Adela Pinch, University of Michigan