To Exercise Our Talents : The Democratization of Writing in Britain / Christopher Hilliard.
2009
PR478.S57 ǂb H55 2006eb
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Title
To Exercise Our Talents : The Democratization of Writing in Britain / Christopher Hilliard.
ISBN
9780674038653
Published
Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (400 p.)
Item Number
10.4159/9780674038653 doi
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PR478.S57 ǂb H55 2006eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
820.9/0091
Summary
In twentieth-century Britain the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives and married women joining writers' clubs in search of creative outlets. In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of "ordinary" voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people--would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history--Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.
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Harvard Historical Studies ; ; 150
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: Literary History from Below
Chapter 1. Middlemen, Markets, and Literary Advice
Chapter 2. A Chance to Exercise Our Talents
Chapter 3. Fiction and the Writing Public
Chapter 4. In My Own Language about My Own People
Chapter 5. Class, Patronage, and Literary Tradition
Chapter 6. People's Writing and the People's War
Chapter 7. The Logic of Our Times
Chapter 8. Popular Writing after the War
Conclusion: On or about the End of the Chatterley Ban
Abbreviations
Notes
Manuscripts and Archives Consulted
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction: Literary History from Below
Chapter 1. Middlemen, Markets, and Literary Advice
Chapter 2. A Chance to Exercise Our Talents
Chapter 3. Fiction and the Writing Public
Chapter 4. In My Own Language about My Own People
Chapter 5. Class, Patronage, and Literary Tradition
Chapter 6. People's Writing and the People's War
Chapter 7. The Logic of Our Times
Chapter 8. Popular Writing after the War
Conclusion: On or about the End of the Chatterley Ban
Abbreviations
Notes
Manuscripts and Archives Consulted
Acknowledgments
Index