Women peasant poets in eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany : milkmaids on Parnassus /: milkmaids on Parnassus. (2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susanne Kord.
• Other Names: Kord, Susanne
• Contents: ""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
• Publisher Details: Rochester, N.Y : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 821/.5099287; 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
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571136282; 1571136282; 1281949183; 9781281949189; 9786611949181; 6611949186
• Related ISBNs: 1571132686
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-314) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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