Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667

Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667

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Looking at texts by non-aristocratic authors, in this study Laurie Ellinghausen 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. Ellinghausen analyzes how the concept of labor as a calling, which was assisted by early modern experiments in democracy, print, and Protestant religion, had a lasting effect on the history of authorship as a profession. In so doing, she reveals the construction of an approach to early modern authorship that values diligence over the courtly values of leisure and play. - - This study expands the scope of scholarship to develop a cultural history that acknowledges the considerable impact of non-aristocratic poets on the idea of authorship as a vocation. Ellinghausen shows that our modern, post-Romantic notions of the professional writer as materially impoverished-and yet committed to his or her art-has recognizable roots in early modern England's workaday lives.

Book information

ISBN: 9780754657804
Publisher: Ashgate
Imprint: Ashgate
Pub date:
DEWEY: 820.9003
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 155
Weight: 390g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 19mm