Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Aesthetic Evasions and Social Consequences
- 1 Back to Nature: Bourgeois Aesthetic Theory and Lower-Class Poetic Practice
- 2 The Wild and the Civilized: Poet Making
- 3 The Life As the Work: Counterfeit Confessions, Bogus Biographies, Literary Lives
- 4 A Literature of Labor: Poetic Images of Country Life
- 5 Inspired by Nature, Inspired by Love: Two Poets on Poetic Inspiration
- 6 Of Patrons and Critics: Reading the Bourgeois Reader
- Conclusion: On the Gender and Class of Art
- Appendix: Short Biographies of Women Peasant Poets
- Works Cited
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Aesthetic Evasions and Social Consequences
- 1 Back to Nature: Bourgeois Aesthetic Theory and Lower-Class Poetic Practice
- 2 The Wild and the Civilized: Poet Making
- 3 The Life As the Work: Counterfeit Confessions, Bogus Biographies, Literary Lives
- 4 A Literature of Labor: Poetic Images of Country Life
- 5 Inspired by Nature, Inspired by Love: Two Poets on Poetic Inspiration
- 6 Of Patrons and Critics: Reading the Bourgeois Reader
- Conclusion: On the Gender and Class of Art
- Appendix: Short Biographies of Women Peasant Poets
- Works Cited
- Index
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- Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and GermanyMilkmaids on Parnassus, pp. 315 - 325Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2003