The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street - Couverture rigide

Cross, Nigel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521245648 ISBN 13 : 9780521245647

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1985

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0521245648
• ISBN 13: 9780521245647
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 271
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible