"Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow" : ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry

Publication Data

• Title "Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow" : ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry
• Author Anne Milne
• Publisher Bucknell University Press
• Publication date 2008
• Publication location Lewisburg, Pa.
• Language English

Contents

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".

Topics

• English poetry :: Women authors :: History and criticism
• English poetry :: 18th century :: History and criticism
• Working class writings, English :: History and criticism
• Animals in literature
• Animals :: Symbolic aspects
• Working class women in literature
• Human-animal relationships in literature
• Ecofeminism in literature
• 014703035

"Lactilla tends her fav'rite cow" : ecocritical readings of animals and women in eighteenth-century British labouring-class women's poetry by Anne Milne. ISBN 9780838756928. Published by Bucknell University Press in 2008. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.