LEADER 05896nam 22006612 450 001 9911008468803321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-281-94918-3 010 $a9786611949181 010 $a1-57113-628-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781571136282 035 $a(CKB)1000000000704689 035 $a(MH)009069191-1 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000878034 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11474908 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000878034 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10812772 035 $a(PQKB)10948449 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781571136282 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3003847 035 $a(DE-B1597)677055 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781571136282 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000704689 100 $a20120822d2003|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWomen peasant poets in eighteenth-century England, Scotland, and Germany $emilkmaids on Parnassus /$fSusanne Kord 210 1$aSuffolk :$cBoydell & Brewer,$d2003. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 325 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 08$a1-57113-268-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tIntroduction: Aesthetic Evasions and Social Consequences --$g1.$tBack to Nature: Bourgeois Aesthetic Theory and Lower-Class Poetic Practice --$tVisionaries: The Artist As Servant, God, or Vegetable --$tWindow Shoppers: The Servant As Artist --$g2.$tWild and the Civilized: Poet Making --$tWages of Suffering and the Wages of Sin: Class Issues and Literary Patronage --$t"Menial Maids, with No Release from Toil": Some Paradigms --$t"The Poet's Silence is the Triumph of Taste": The Case of Anna Louisa Karsch --$t"Drive Your Cows from the Foot of Parnassus": The Case of Ann Yearsley --$g3.$tLife As the Work: Counterfeit Confessions, Bogus Biographies, Literary Lives --$tArcadian Shepherdesses and Toiling Peasants: On Poetry and Poverty --$tGerman Sappho: Controversies Surrounding a Legend --$tMan or a Mother? Anna Louisa Karsch Forgets Her Gender --$tBeauty and the Beasts: Fairy Tale Imagery --$tUnhappy Endings: Biographical Punishment --$g4.$tLiterature of Labor: Poetic Images of Country Life --$tPhysical Labor and Poetic "Idleness" --$tRural Realities I: Pastoral Landscapes and Village Scenes --$tRural Realities II: The Rustic at Work --$tPastorals and Power: Social and Aesthetic Considerations --$g5.$tInspired by Nature, Inspired by Love: Two Poets on Poetic Inspiration --$tRural Muse: On Nature Inspiration and Book Learning --$tUnder Love's Spell: Authors and Readers --$g6.$tOf Patrons and Critics: Reading the Bourgeois Reader --$tReading the Reader: Of Critics and Posterity --$tCastle-Building: Of Patrons and Their Empty Promises --$tConclusion: On the Gender and Class of Art --$tApp.: Short Biographies of Women Peasant Poets. 330 $aThis 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. 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. Kord's book provides a fresh look at some of this fascinating literature, and at the roles and attitudes of the lower classes and of women in the Art world of the day. It 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. SUSANNE KORD is Professor and Head of the Department of German at University College London. 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