Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667

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Labor and Writing in Early Modern England, 1567-1667 is written by Laurie Ellinghausen and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0754657809 (ISBN 10) and 9780754657804 (ISBN 13).

Laurie Ellinghausen here 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. Among the authors discussed are Ben Jonson; the maidservant and poet Isabella Whitney; the journalist and satirist Thomas Nashe; the boatman John Taylor "The Water Poet"; and the Puritan radical George Wither.