{"product_id":"domestic-georgic-katie-kadue-9780226797359","title":"Domestic Georgic: Labors of Preservation from Rabelais to Milton","description":"\u003cb\u003eInspired by Virgil's Georgics, this study conceptualizes Renaissance poetry as a domestic labor.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eGeorgics\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eDomestic Georgic \u003c\/i\u003ebrings 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Katie Kadue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022679735X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226797359\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.06lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Katie Kadue","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43981991739647,"sku":"9780226797359","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db832f67-85ad-4b49-94de-67894224678d.jpg?v=1683258666","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/domestic-georgic-katie-kadue-9780226797359","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}