Pat Rogers

Grub Street (Routledge Revivals) (eBook, ePUB)

Studies in a Subculture

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term 'Grub Street' has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place but an emphatic lifestyle. Pat Rogers shows that the major satirists - Pope, Swift and Fielding - built a potent fiction surrounding the real circumstances in which the scribblers lived, and the importance of this aspect of their writing. The author first locates the original Grub Street, in what is now the Barbican, and then presents a detailed topographical tour of the surrounding area. With studies of a number of key authors, as well as the modern and metaphorical development of the term 'Grub Street', this book offers comprehensive insight into the nature of Augustan literature and the social conditions and concerns that inspired it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 454
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317687603
• Artikelnr.: 40860892

Autorenporträt

Pat Rogers

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: The Topography of Dulness
1. The Suburban Muse 2. The Plagues of Dulness 3. The Criteria of Duncehood 4. Swift and the Scribbler 5. Life Studies 6. The Grub Street Myth
Appendix A: Evidence from the Rate-Books
Appendix B: The Trades of Grub Street
Appendix C: A Grub Street Ode
Index