The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street - Brossura

Cross, Nigel

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521357217 ISBN 13: 9780521357210

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1988

Riassunto

This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century.

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Descrizione del libro

The Common Writer examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, it provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure.

Contenuti

Acknowledgements; Introduction: the common writer; 1. Literature and charity: the Royal literary fund from David Williams to Charles Dickens; 2. From prisons to pensions: Grub Street and its institutions; 3. Bohemia in Fleet Street; 4. The labouring muse: working-class writers and middle-class culture; 5. The female drudge: women novelists and their publishers; 6. Gissing's new Grub Street, 1880–1900; Notes; Index.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0521357217
• ISBN 13: 9780521357210
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile