Author: Katie Kadue
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679752X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Inspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking literary feats—including Michel de Montaigne and John Milton—conceived of their writing in surprisingly modest and domestic terms. In contrast to the monumental ambitions associated with the literature of the age, and picking up an undercurrent of Virgil’s Georgics, poetic labor of the Renaissance emerges here as often aligned with so-called women’s work. Kadue reveals how male authors’ engagements with a feminized georgic mode became central to their conceptions of what literature is and could be. This other georgic strain in literature shared the same primary concern as housekeeping: the necessity of constant, almost invisible labor to keep the things of the world intact. Domestic Georgic brings into focus a conception of literary—as well as scholarly and critical—labor not as a striving for originality and fame but as a form of maintenance work that aims at preserving individual and collective life.
Domestic Georgic
Author: Katie Kadue
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679752X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Inspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking literary feats—including Michel de Montaigne and John Milton—conceived of their writing in surprisingly modest and domestic terms. In contrast to the monumental ambitions associated with the literature of the age, and picking up an undercurrent of Virgil’s Georgics, poetic labor of the Renaissance emerges here as often aligned with so-called women’s work. Kadue reveals how male authors’ engagements with a feminized georgic mode became central to their conceptions of what literature is and could be. This other georgic strain in literature shared the same primary concern as housekeeping: the necessity of constant, almost invisible labor to keep the things of the world intact. Domestic Georgic brings into focus a conception of literary—as well as scholarly and critical—labor not as a striving for originality and fame but as a form of maintenance work that aims at preserving individual and collective life.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679752X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Inspired by Virgil’s Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor. When is literary production more menial than inspired, more like housework than heroics of the mind? In this revisionist study, Katie Kadue shows that some of the authors we credit with groundbreaking literary feats—including Michel de Montaigne and John Milton—conceived of their writing in surprisingly modest and domestic terms. In contrast to the monumental ambitions associated with the literature of the age, and picking up an undercurrent of Virgil’s Georgics, poetic labor of the Renaissance emerges here as often aligned with so-called women’s work. Kadue reveals how male authors’ engagements with a feminized georgic mode became central to their conceptions of what literature is and could be. This other georgic strain in literature shared the same primary concern as housekeeping: the necessity of constant, almost invisible labor to keep the things of the world intact. Domestic Georgic brings into focus a conception of literary—as well as scholarly and critical—labor not as a striving for originality and fame but as a form of maintenance work that aims at preserving individual and collective life.
Domestic Georgic
Author: Katie Kadue
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226797359
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Introduction : the private labors of public men -- Rabelais in a pickle : fixing flux in Le quart livre -- Spenser's secret recipes : life support in The faerie queene -- Correcting Montaigne : agitation and care in the Essais -- Marvell in the meantime : preserving patriarchy in Upon Appleton House -- Milton's storehouses : tempering futures in Areopagitica, Paradise lost, and Paradise regain'd -- Conclusion : a woman's work is never done.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780226797359
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Introduction : the private labors of public men -- Rabelais in a pickle : fixing flux in Le quart livre -- Spenser's secret recipes : life support in The faerie queene -- Correcting Montaigne : agitation and care in the Essais -- Marvell in the meantime : preserving patriarchy in Upon Appleton House -- Milton's storehouses : tempering futures in Areopagitica, Paradise lost, and Paradise regain'd -- Conclusion : a woman's work is never done.
Domestic Georgic
Author: Katie Kadue
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679749X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Introduction : the private labors of public men -- Rabelais in a pickle : fixing flux in Le quart livre -- Spenser's secret recipes : life support in The faerie queene -- Correcting Montaigne : agitation and care in the Essais -- Marvell in the meantime : preserving patriarchy in Upon Appleton House -- Milton's storehouses : tempering futures in Areopagitica, Paradise lost, and Paradise regain'd -- Conclusion : a woman's work is never done.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022679749X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Introduction : the private labors of public men -- Rabelais in a pickle : fixing flux in Le quart livre -- Spenser's secret recipes : life support in The faerie queene -- Correcting Montaigne : agitation and care in the Essais -- Marvell in the meantime : preserving patriarchy in Upon Appleton House -- Milton's storehouses : tempering futures in Areopagitica, Paradise lost, and Paradise regain'd -- Conclusion : a woman's work is never done.
Domestic Commerce Series ...
Author: United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. (Dept. of commerce).
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Announcement of the University of Georgia with a Catalogue of the Officers and Students
Author: University of Georgia
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
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Transcript of Eighth Public Hearing, Atlanta, Georgia, September 23-27, 1974
Author: United States. Federal Energy Administration
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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ISBN:
Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 788
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Acts Passed by the General Assembly of Georgia
Author: Georgia
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 440
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Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia
Author: Georgia
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 904
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Annual Report of the State of Georgia, Department of Education
Author: Georgia. Department of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Report of the State School Commissioner of Georgia to the General Assembly
Author: Georgia. Department of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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