Living as an author in the romantic period 1st ed.

Author

• Sangster, Matthew

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030370473

Series

Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print

Subject(s)

• ENGLISH LITERATURE
• GREAT BRITAIN
• ROMANTICISM

Notes

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Abstract

This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with publishers; the challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers (particularly the less privileged) from accruing significant rewards; the rhetorical professionalisation of periodicals; and the manners in which emerging paradigms and technologies catalysed a belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and perceived.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xii, 372 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction: What was an Author in the Romantic Period? --
2. Chapter One: Publishers, Book Production and Profits --
3. Chapter Two: Sociable Alignments --
4. Chapter Three: Succeeding in 'the Worst Trade' --
5. Chapter Four: The Working Writer --
6.Chapter Five: The Oligarchs of Literature: Authority and the Quarterly Reviews --
7. Chapter Six: Refashioning Authorship's Purview --
8. Coda: Print Proliferation and the Invention of the Artist.

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00763/21	820.9007 San L	Online !	Available