1st Edition
Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667
By Laurie Ellinghausen
Copyright 2008
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
166 Pages
by
Routledge
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Looking at texts by non-aristocratic authors, in this studythe author investigates the relationship between nascent early modern notions of professional authorship and the emerging idea of vocation - the sense that one's identity is bound up in one's work. The author analyzes how the concept of labor as a calling, which was assisted by early modern experiments in democracy, print, and... Read more
Contents: Introduction: forging authorship; 'Tis all I have': print authorship and occupational identity in Isabella Whitney's A Sweet Nosgay; The uses of resentment: Nashe, Parnassus, and the poet's mystery; 'Laborious, yet not base': Jonson, Vulcan, and poetic labor; The new bourgeois hero: the individualist project of John Taylor 'the water poet'; 'One line a day': George Wither's process; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Laurie Ellinghausen is associate professor in the UMKC Department of English Language and Literature, University of Missouri-Kancis City.
