'Ungainefull Arte'
Subtitle: Poetry, Patronage, and Print in the Early Modern Era
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780198716525
Subjects: Literature, modern, history and criticism, 15th and 16th centuries; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 17th century; Literature, modern, history and criticism, 18th century; English prose literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700; Authors and patrons
Description: 'Ungainefull Arte' examines how traditional modes of literary patronage responded to the challenge of print, as the economies of gift-exchange competed with those of the marketplaces, allowing for the reassessment of patronage both as a social practice and a literary theme.