Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… Satire Sex The term ‘Grub Street’ is one of the most loaded in the eighteenth-century discourse around the Republic of Letters and, specifically, the emergence of a professional book market. The term ‘Grub Street’ first of all reflects … out for the highest bidder like James Ralph, but he was not beneath tricking an enemy bookseller into publishing his letters, thereby keeping the stigma of authorly vanity from himself. The publication of his translations of Homer through … writes about Samuel Johnson in 1831: ‘Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when the condition of a man of letters was most miserable and degraded. It was a dark night between two sunny days. The age of patronage had passed …
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