"Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow" : ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry / Anne Milne.

Author/creator Milne, Anne
Format Book
Publication InfoLewisburg : Bucknell University Press, ©2008.
Description176 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
English poetry--Women authors. --History and criticism.
English poetry--18th century. --History and criticism.
Working class writings, English--History and criticism.
Animals in literature.
Animals--Symbolic aspects.
Working class women in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Ecofeminism in literature.
Ecocriticism.

Contents Ideologies of domestication in Mary Leapor's "Man the monarch" -- Gender, class, and the beehive : Mary Collier's "The woman's labour" as nature poem -- "We saw an heifer stray" : ecological interconnection and identification in Elizabeth Hands's "Written, originally extempore, on seeing a mad heifer run through the village where the author lives" -- The silence of the lamb : rapture and release in Ann Yearsley's "Written on a visit" -- Dogs and the "talking animal syndrome" in Janet Little's "From snipe, a favourite dog, to his master".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index.
LCCN 2007038283
ISBN9780838756928 (alk. paper)
ISBN0838756921 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 508.W6 M56 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold