Linda Zionkowski.

Linda Zionkowski. Men's Work: form relative to sex Class, and the Professionalization of metrical composition 1660-1784. New York: Palgrave. 2001 Pp viii, 279 $4995 ISBN 0-312-23758-8

Men's Work from Linda Zionkowski tells the story of the emerging see the verb of the professional male bard as independent and authoritative. According to this history, his prominence advances about through the culture's double rejection of the amateur male aristocratic bard and the effeminate servile literary hack. The economics of the literary trade influence these changes through making patronage and commercial hard [i]or[/i] toilsome work equally ...

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