Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… British literary imagination and during the nineteenth century became part of the mythologizing of eighteenth-century literature. Places > Cities Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Keywords Commerce Patronage Politics Satire Sex The … Street’ first of all reflects contemporary fears about the changes that the commercialization of writing introduced to literature and publishing, but could occasionally also be expressive of the defiant attitude of those who were suspected … writer’, the other was trying to write something that sold as well as possible. There is a long tradition in British literature of ‘true’ or ‘literary’ authors looking down on all forms of publication, with all of its unwanted …
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