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Men's Work

Name: Men's Work
Author: Linda Zionkowski
ISBN: 9780312237585

by Linda Zionkowski

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Overview

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.

Synopsis

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.

About the Author, Linda Zionkowski

Linda Zionkowski is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University.

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Zionkowski's study looks at how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and 18th century. Zionkowski (English, Ohio U.) 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 within the hierarchies of class and gender. During the period, a prevailing belief that commodifying writers' mental labor undermined their cultural authority gave way to a celebration of the market's function as a proving ground both for literary merit and for bourgeois manhood. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)