The Common Writer : Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street Paperback / softback
by Nigel Cross
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This book examines the conditions of authorship and the development of publishing and journalism during the nineteenth century.
It provides a detailed account on the social, cultural, and economic factors that control literary activity, and determine literary success or failure.
There are chapters on the place of women and working-class writers in a predominantly male, middle-class publishing industry; on literary clubs, societies, and feuds; on patronage, charity, and state support for writers; on literary journalists and the development of the bohemian character; on the facts that inspired the fictional world of Thackeray's Pendennis and Gissing's New Grub Street; and on the long-running debates on the status of writers and the state of literature.
Drawing on a wide range of contemporary sources, The Common Writer adds substantially to our understanding of nineteenth-century literary history and culture.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/1988
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- ISBN:9780521357210
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:272 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:09/06/1988
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- ISBN:9780521357210