Women peasant poets in eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
milkmaids on Parnassus /
First Statement of Responsibility
Susanne Kord.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Rochester, N.Y. :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Camden House,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xiii, 325 pages :
Other Physical Details
illustrations ;
Dimensions
24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-314) and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"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 Mary Collier, the English domestic servants Elizabeth Hands and Molly Leapor, the German cowherd Anna Louisa Karsch, the Scottish diarywoman Janet Little, the Scottish domestic servant Christian Milne, and the English milkmaid Ann Cromartie Yearsley. Their literature is here linked with one of the major eighteenth-century aesthetic trends in all three countries, the Natural Genius craze, which culminated in highland primitivism in Scotland and England, and in the Sturm und Drang in Germany."--Jacket.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
European poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
European poetry-- Women authors-- History and criticism.
Peasants as authors-- Europe.
Women and literature-- Europe-- History-- 18th century.
Bäuerin
Boerinnen.
European poetry-- 18th century-- History and criticism.
European poetry-- Women authors-- History and criticism.