Grub Street (Routledge Revivals)

Grub Street (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 363
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ISBN-10 : 9781317687603
ISBN-13 : 1317687604
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Synopsis Grub Street (Routledge Revivals) by : Pat Rogers

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.

Grub Street (Routledge Revivals)

Grub Street (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 462
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ISBN-10 : 9781317687610
ISBN-13 : 1317687612
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Synopsis Grub Street (Routledge Revivals) by : Pat Rogers

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.

Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture

Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture
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Publisher : London : Methuen
Total Pages : 458
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015003311860
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Synopsis Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture by : Pat Rogers

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.

Just Looking (Routledge Revivals)

Just Looking (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 131
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ISBN-10 : 9781136999574
ISBN-13 : 1136999574
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Just Looking (Routledge Revivals) by : Rachel Bowlby

The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking, first published in 1985, addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms "commerce" and "culture" which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices. Drawing on structural, psychoanalytic and Marxist-feminist theory, Rachel Bowlby retrieves a relatively neglected literary area for contemporary political and theoretical concerns, re-establishing the naturalist novel as a rich source for feminists, literary theorists and cultural historians.

The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)

The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781136816284
ISBN-13 : 1136816283
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Criticism of Henry Fielding (Routledge Revivals) by : Ioan Williams

First published in 1970, this selection of Fielding’s criticism is an important contribution to our understanding of Fielding and his age. It directs considerable light upon Fielding’s own critical views, with regard both to his own works and to eighteenth-century life and literature at large. The volume includes many of Fielding’s well-known and important statements on literature, society and morals, as well as many which are now difficult to obtain. The selection presents the full range of Fielding’s criticism, showing the relations between his statements concerning literature and his opinions on other matters, and drawing on the complete body of his work. The editor has provided a large-scale analytical introduction.

The Pleasures of the Imagination

The Pleasures of the Imagination
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 566
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ISBN-10 : 9781135912369
ISBN-13 : 113591236X
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pleasures of the Imagination by : John Brewer

The Pleasures of the Imagination examines the birth and development of English "high culture" in the eighteenth century. It charts the growth of a literary and artistic world fostered by publishers, theatrical and musical impresarios, picture dealers and auctioneers, and presented to th public in coffee-houses, concert halls, libraries, theatres and pleasure gardens. In 1660, there were few professional authors, musicians and painters, no public concert series, galleries, newspaper critics or reviews. By the dawn of the nineteenth century they were all aprt of the cultural life of the nation. John Brewer's enthralling book explains how this happened and recreates the world in which the great works of English eighteenth-century art were made. Its purpose is to show how literature, painting, music and the theatre were communicated to a public increasingly avid for them. It explores the alleys and garrets of Grub Street, rummages the shelves of bookshops and libraries, peers through printsellers' shop windows and into artists' studios, and slips behind the scenes at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. It takes us out of Gay and Boswell's London to visit the debating clubs, poetry circles, ballrooms, concert halls, music festivals, theatres and assemblies that made the culture of English provincial towns, and shows us how the national landscape became one of Britain's greatest cultural treasures. It reveals to us a picture of English artistic and literary life in the eighteenth century less familiar, but more suprising, more various and more convincing than any we have seen before.

The Routledge History of Literature in English

The Routledge History of Literature in English
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 598
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ISBN-10 : 0415243173
ISBN-13 : 9780415243179
Rating : 4/5 (73 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge History of Literature in English by : Ronald Carter

This is a guide to the main developments in the history of British and Irish literature, charting some of the main features of literary language development and highlighting key language topics.

The Spectator

The Spectator
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1064
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105007433803
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Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

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A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

The Nation and Athenaeum

The Nation and Athenaeum
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 936
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ISBN-10 : UGA:32108044497546
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