Author: George GissingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
New Grub Street
Author: George GissingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Common Writer
Author: Nigel CrossPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521357210
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
The Bookman
Author: The Noise of Time
Author: Osip MandelʹshtamPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN: 9780140187069
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Booklover's London
Author: Arthur St. John AdcockPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The New Age
Author: The Odd Volume
Author: Who's who in Literature
Author: Mark MeredithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
Contains list of "Fictitious and pseudonymous names."
The Book Monthly
Author: James MilnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography, National
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Brothers of the Quill
Author: Norma ClarkePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968743
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Oliver Goldsmith arrived in England in 1756 a penniless Irishman. He toiled for years in the anonymity of Grub Street—already a synonym for impoverished hack writers—before he became one of literary London’s most celebrated authors. Norma Clarke tells the extraordinary story of this destitute scribbler turned gentleman of letters as it unfolds in the early days of commercial publishing, when writers’ livelihoods came to depend on the reading public, not aristocratic patrons. Clarke examines a network of writers radiating outward from Goldsmith: the famous and celebrated authors of Dr. Johnson’s “Club” and those far less fortunate “brothers of the quill” trapped in Grub Street. Clarke emphasizes Goldsmith’s sense of himself as an Irishman, showing that many of his early literary acquaintances were Irish émigrés: Samuel Derrick, John Pilkington, Paul Hiffernan, and Edward Purdon. These writers tutored Goldsmith in the ways of Grub Street, and their influence on his development has not previously been explored. Also Irish was the patron he acquired after 1764, Robert Nugent, Lord Clare. Clarke places Goldsmith in the tradition of Anglo-Irish satirists beginning with Jonathan Swift. He transmuted troubling truths about the British Empire into forms of fable and nostalgia whose undertow of Irish indignation remains perceptible, if just barely, beneath an equanimous English surface. To read Brothers of the Quill is to be taken by the hand into the darker corners of eighteenth-century Grub Street, and to laugh and cry at the absurdities of the writing life.