"Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow"
Subtitle: ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry
By: Anne Milne.
Publisher: Bucknell University Press; UNKNO
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Lewisburg
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780838756928
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-173) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ideologies of domestication in Mary Leapor's "Man the monarch"; title: Gender, class, and the beehive : Mary Collier's "The woman's labour" as nature poem; title: "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"; title: The silence of the lamb : rapture and release in Ann Yearsley's "Written on a visit"; title: Dogs and the "talking animal syndrome" in Janet Little's "From snipe, a favourite dog, to his master".