WOMEN PEASANT POETS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, by Susanne Kord

Description: WOMEN PEASANT POETS IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND, by Susanne Kord - HC Like New Condition is BRAND NEW without shrink-wrap. Flawless, with zero signs of use. This will be packed very carefully and shipped US Media Mail with Tracking. We are happy to combine items to save you money on shipping. For example, we can send you three typical DVDs for the price of 1. Just put your selection in your shopping cart and press the Request Total button (top right) and we will get back to you with the lowest combined shipping price. Remember Media Mail starts at $3.65 for the first pound weight (or fraction), but then only 70 cents for each additional pound (or fraction). And visit our sister store on eBay (GutenburgReads) to see the more than 700 interesting items we are selling. From the flyleaf: 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. Susanne Kord's analysis of the peasant women's works and the bourgeois response enables us to find new answers to questions that have centrally influenced our thinking about what makes art Art: What role did lower-class authors play in the theories of bourgeois aestheticists who endeavored to return Art, most notably the Art of writing, to "nature," viewed it as a matter of spontaneous inspiration rather than education and training, and sought its primary inspiration in "the people"? Analogously, what role did lower-class women's writing play in the aesthetic theories of bourgeois men? How can we explain the paradoxical fact that while nature aesthetics were frequently used to justify the publication of peasant poets, the idealized "natural" author in these treatises is exemplified not by them, but by Shakespeare and Milton? And how did peasant women writers themselves view the bourgeois project of Art and authorship, and seek to participate in it? Kord's book not only provides a fresh look at these questions, but also advances a revolutionary thesis: that the eighteenth-century bourgeoisie established itself as the dominant cultural class not primarily, as is commonly held, in opposition to aristocratic culture, but, more importantly, through its dissociation from and suppression of lower-class art forms. By the way: Welcome to the new ebay storefront for The Shepherd's Center of Winston-Salem. The store will be operated by experienced ebay sellers who have been selling some of our best donations for several years now through their own storefronts. Now we are using these same experienced sellers to sell to you directly. For the philanthropists out there, the vast majority of the items sold by us (GutenburgReads and others), are for the benefit of The Shepherd's Center of Greater Winston-Salem, whose mission is to help house-bound seniors live full and independent lives in their own homes. The center provides transportation to medical appointments and grocery shopping, assistance with minor repairs around the house, and companionship through visits. The citizens of Winston-Salem generously donate books, music, movies, and more to us to help us achieve our mission. And now, you can buy useful items from us directly, and you will be helping the less fortunate in our city.

Price: 66 USD

Location: Winston-Salem, North Carolina

End Time: 2025-01-27T20:21:12.000Z

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