Grub Street (Routledge Revivals): Studies in a Subculture

ISBN-13: 9781138024809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 462 str.

Pat Rogers

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First published in 1972, this is a 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.

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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

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Pat Rogers