Living as an author in the romantic period / Matthew Sangster.
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; th...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2021]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
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| Online Access: | Springer Humanities and Social Science eBook Collection 2021 English/International |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 303037047X 9783030370473 3030370461 9783030370466 |