Nigel Cross

The Common Writer

Life in Nineteenth-Century Grub Street

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780521357210
• ISBN-10: 0521357217
• Artikelnr.: 33160158

Inhaltsangabe

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.