Research Catalog
Men's work : gender, class, and the professionalization of poetry, 1660-1784
- Title
- Men's work : gender, class, and the professionalization of poetry, 1660-1784 / Linda Zionkowski.
- Author
- Zionkowski, Linda.
- Publication
- New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PR551 .Z56 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- viii, 279 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and 18th 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.
- Subject
- Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 > Authorship
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700 > Authorship
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Authorship
- Dryden, John, 1631-1700
- Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
- Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
- Lives of the English poets (Johnson, Samuel)
- 1500-1799
- English poetry > 18th century > History and criticism
- Poetry > Authorship > Economic aspects > History. > Great Britain
- Poetry > Authorship > Social aspects > History. > Great Britain
- English poetry > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- English poetry > Male authors > History and criticism
- Authorship > Sex differences > History > 18th century
- Authorship > Sex differences > History > 17th century
- Authorship
- Authorship > Sex differences
- English poetry
- English poetry > Early modern
- English poetry > Male authors
- Poetry > Authorship > Economic aspects
- Poetry > Authorship > Social aspects
- Lyriker
- Professionalisierung
- Literatura inglesa (século 17;século 18;história e crítica)
- Poesia (século 17;século 18;história e crítica) > Grã-bretanha
- Geschichte 1660-1784
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-272) and index.
- Contents
- Poets of the Times: Rochester, Oldham, and Restoration Literary Culture -- From the Stage to the Closet: Dryden's Journey into Print, Manhood, and Poetic Authority -- "A good Poet is no small Thing": Pope and the Problem of Pleasure for Sale -- "I shall be but a shrimp of an author": Gray, the Marketplace, and the Masculine Poet -- "I also am a Man": Johnson's Lives and the Gender of the Poet.
- ISBN
- 0312237588
- 9780312237585
- 0312299745
- 9780312299743
- LCCN
- 00051485
- OCLC
- ocm45247286
- 45247286
- SCSB-14170151
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library