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

[...]both laboring-class woman poet and animal break with the surrounding constraints of eighteenth-century village life. The theoretical framework of interlocking oppressions is, as noted previously, one of the strengths of the text as it blurs the boundaries between women, animals, and poets and c...

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Published in:Aphra Behn online 2011, Vol.1 (1), p.0_1-3
Main Author: Wiegand, Dometa
Format: Review
Language:English
Subjects:
18th century
Animals
Collier, Mary
Domestication
Ecocriticism
Ecology
Humboldt, Alexander von (1769-1859)
Oppression
Poetry
Poets
Reading
Women
Yearsley, Ann (1756-1806)
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Summary:[...]both laboring-class woman poet and animal break with the surrounding constraints of eighteenth-century village life. The theoretical framework of interlocking oppressions is, as noted previously, one of the strengths of the text as it blurs the boundaries between women, animals, and poets and complicates our understanding of "natural," "wildness," and "domestication" through the lens of ecofeminism; the intent to view this complex theory alongside and integrated with "historical projects" is a noble effort to expand narrow theorizing. [...]while Milne's approach does yield some rather illuminating aspects to the poems themselves, the reader cannot help but experience at times a concern that Milne has forgotten that these poems are, in fact, poems.
ISSN:2157-7129