Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… made it appealing to use the street name as a shorthand for a specific kind of writer, one that was on the margins of society, desperately (and incompetently) trying to make some money from writing. Thus, while the street name does not … likely input by Pope. Extracts from the journal’s content were published in 1732 and 1737 as Memoirs of the Grub Street Society . Though the actual street eventually disappeared in the restructuring of London and the underlying conditions … ‘the system’. An alternative strain of criticism had seen Grub Street on the opposite end, as outcasts from the polite society that made up the republic of letters. And indeed, a lot of the criticism of and debates around Grub Street came …
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