Women peasant poets in eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany
Subtitle: milkmaids on Parnassus
By: Susanne Kord.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
Subjects: 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.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [274]-314) and index.