Men''s Work : Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660–1784
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0312237588
ISBN-13
9780312237585
Publisher
St Martin's Press
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St Martin's Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 28th, 2001
Print length
279 Pages
Weight
450 grams
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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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