Churchyard poetics: landscape, labour, and the legacy of genre
Auteur :
Metcalf, James
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198943853
Date de publication :
6 févr. 2025
Dimensions :
22,3 x 14,5 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
378 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
The churchyard is a familiar but little-understood literary landscape in eighteenth-century scholarship. This book recovers work by women and labouring-class poets to argue that the churchyard was an important and revealing site in the cultural imaginary as this period negotiated the transition to capitalism.