Lactilla Tends Her Fav'rite Cow: Ecocritical Readings of Animals and Women in Eighteenth-Century British Labouring-Class Women's Poetry

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This volume brings together issues of gender, class, and species through a study of a selection of poetry by five 18th-century British labouring-class women poets including Mary Collier, Ann Yearsley, and Janet Little. Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: ‘‘The Captive Linnet’’ and the F(l)ight of the ‘‘natural Genius’’ Ideologies of Domestication in Mary Leapor’s ‘‘Man the Monarch’’ Gender, Class, and the Beehive: Mary Collier’s ‘‘The Woman’s Labour’’ as Nature Poem ‘‘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’’ The Silence of the Lamb: Rapture and Release in Ann Yearsley’s ‘‘Written on a Visit’’ Dogs and the ‘‘Talking Animal Syndrome’’ in Janet Little’s ‘‘From Snipe, a Favourite Dog, To His Master’’ Conclusion: Towards an Eighteenth-Century Ecocriticism THROUGH Appendix Notes Bibliography Index