A 1990 study of the remarkable by neglected laboring-class women poets of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174 x 18. Weight in Grams: 540. . 2008. Revised ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1739-1796
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2005
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521021952
ISBN 13: 9780521021951
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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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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In this challenging 1990 study, Donna Landry shows how an understanding of the remarkable but neglected laboring-class women poets in the eighteenth century provokes a reassessment of our ideas concerning the literature of the period. The innovative poetic achievements of these plebeian women writers constitute an exciting literary discovery.

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