Women Peasant Poets in Eighteenth-Century England, Scotland, and Germany: Milkmaids on Parnassus (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

CONTENTS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
......Page 10
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......Page 12
INTRODUCTION: Aesthetic Evasions and Social Consequences......Page 16
Visionaries: The Artist As Servant, God, or Vegetable......Page 34
Window Shoppers: The Servant As Artist......Page 54
The Wages of Suffering and the Wages of Sin: Class Issues and Literary Patronage......Page 63
“Menial Maids, with No Release from Toil”: Some Paradigms......Page 69
“The Poet’s Silence is the Triumph of Taste”: The Case of Anna Louisa Karsch......Page 85
“Drive Your Cows from the Foot of Parnassus”: The Case of Ann Yearsley......Page 108
3: The Life As the Work: Counterfeit Confessions, Bogus Biographies, Literary Lives......Page 120
Arcadian Shepherdesses and Toiling Peasants: On Poetry and Poverty......Page 123
The German Sappho: Controversies Surrounding a Legend......Page 133
A Man or a Mother? Anna Louisa Karsch Forgets Her Gender......Page 138
Beauty and the Beasts: Fairy Tale Imagery......Page 148
Unhappy Endings: Biographical Punishment......Page 168
Physical Labor and Poetic “Idleness”......Page 175
Rural Realities I: Pastoral Landscapes and Village Scenes......Page 176
Rural Realities II: The Rustic at Work......Page 191
Pastorals and Power: Social and Aesthetic Considerations......Page 207
5: Inspired by Nature, Inspired by Love: Two Poets on Poetic Inspiration......Page 209
The Rural Muse: On Nature Inspiration and Book Learning......Page 210
Under Love’s Spell: Authors and Readers......Page 223
Reading the Reader: Of Critics and Posterity......Page 231
Castle-Building:
Of Patrons and Their Empty Promises......Page 246
CONCLUSION: 
On the Gender and Class of Art......Page 255
APPENDIX: Short Biographies of Women Peasant Poets......Page 274
WORKS CITED
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INDEX
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