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.
General
Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
September 2021 |
Authors: |
Katie Kadue
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
232 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-79749-6 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-226-79749-X |
Barcode: |
9780226797496 |
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