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Men's Work - Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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Men's Work - Gender, Class, and the Professionalization of Poetry, 1660-1784 (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)
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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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