Eighteenth-Century Women Poets - Nation, Class, and Gender

Shows how eighteenth-century women's literature redefined nation and culture in class and gendered terms.
This book examines the poems of three Englishwomen-washerwoman Mary Collier, middle-class feminist polemicist Mary Scott, Bristol milkwoman Ann Yearsley, and Scottish dairywoman from Ayrshire, Janet Little. It questions how national identity might have influenced gender and class affiliations, and, reciprocally, how gender might have determined a nationalist impulse, particularly as it played out during the revolutionary period (1770-1800) in which most of the texts were written.

About the author

Moira Ferguson is Professor of English at New York University in London. Her books include Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: Nation, Class, and Gender, also published by SUNY Press, and Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834.

Product details

• Authors: Moira Ferguson
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.11.1995
• EAN: 9780791425114
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-2511-4
• No. of pages: 164
• Weight: 408 g
• Series: Tax Series; Tax Series; Suny Feminist Criticism and Th
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies