Men''s Work : Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660–1784

Name: Men''s Work
Brand: St Martin's Press
SKU: 9780312237585
Price: 8100 KES
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ISBN: 9780312237585

by L. Zionkowski

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0312237588

ISBN-13 9780312237585

Publisher St Martin's Press

Imprint St Martin's Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 28th, 2001

Print length 279 Pages

Weight 450 grams

Product Classification: Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 Literary studies: poetry & poets Literary studies: poetry and poets Gender studies: men and boys Gender studies: men

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This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and eighteenth century.

This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and eighteenth century. Analyzing works by writers from Rochester to Johnson, Linda Zionkowski argues that the opportunities for publication created by the growth of a commercial market in texts profoundly challenged aristocratic conceptions of authorship and altered the status of professional poets on the hierarchies of class and gender. The book proposes that during this period, discourse about the poet's social role both revealed and produced a crucial shift in configurations of masculinity: the belief that commodifying their mental labor undermined writers' cultural authority gave way to a celebration of the market's function as the proving ground for both literary merit and bourgeois manhood.

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