Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton Kadue Katie
Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton Kadue Katie Inspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.When is literary…
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Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton Kadue Katie
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 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. 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.
This other georgic strain in literature shared the same primary concern as Kadue reveals how male authors' engagements with a feminized georgic mode became central to their conceptions of what literature is and could be.