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.
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