Living as an author in the Romantic period / Matthew Sangster.
2021
PR448.A87
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Title
Living as an author in the Romantic period / Matthew Sangster.
Author
Sangster, Matthew, author.
ISBN
303037047X (electronic book)
9783030370473 (electronic bk.)
3030370461
9783030370466
9783030370473 (electronic bk.)
3030370461
9783030370466
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 372 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-37047-3 doi
Call Number
PR448.A87
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9007
Summary
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.