Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… 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 or accused of belonging to that new class of mercenary … with commerce and public exposure. The aristocratic wits at the Restoration court did what they could to avoid the impression that they were interested in publishing their poetry beyond the fashionable circles through which they spread in … is called grubstreet .’ 5 . Jonathan Swift, Correspondence, ed. by Harold Williams, 5 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963–65), vol. I, p. 132–33. From the perspective of sociability, eighteenth-century discussions of Grub Street …
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