Reviews of the hardback edition: 'A meticulously detailed and thought-provoking look at Grub Street.'Times Literary Supplement'All the essays have insightful things to say about their individual authors as writers for the periodical press.'Media History'An effective geneaology of modern journalism from the early nineteenth century through to the 1930s.'Sally Ledger, Birkbeck CollegeJournalism has often been disregarded or represented as 'other' by literary critics and authors. The sense of its difference from literature has been heightened by its identification with daily newspaper journalism...

Poet, school inspector, civil servant and critic: this study examines the interrelationship of Arnold's different activities in tracing his evolution as a publicist until the publication of 'Culture and Anarchy' in 1869. In doing so Kate Campbell overturns the view of Arnoldian detachment by describing Arnold's promotion of his objectives of culture and an interventionist State and his implication in the new cultural politics of the 1860s. CONTENTS Acknowledgements Biographical Outline Abbreviations and References 1. Early Life, Poetry & Prose, 1822-1853 2. The Empire of Facts: Inspection,...

Seattle street artist Lizette Karlson tries to pull herself together in 1973 and turns to the Franklin Street Dogs for help. This low-life softball team is a horrifying choice for a fragile spirit like Lizette, who's only trying to stay warm and make it through another rainy night. The Dogs don't realize that while she's beautiful, talented, and a bit off-kilter-she's also cunning and very dangerous. Lizette wants to hook up with top-Dog, Rocket. He's fixed on next-door neighbor Sandy Shore, the little snake dancer who strips for soldiers coming home at the end of the Vietnam War. Everybody...