Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… century became part of the mythologizing of eighteenth-century literature. Places > Cities Concepts > Literary & Artistic genres Mots-clés Commerce Patronage Politics Satire sexe The term ‘Grub Street’ is one of the most loaded in the … quality. This made the writer comparable to a craftsman or a merchant and strongly distanced him from the idea of the artist. The term that is most closely related to Grub Street is therefore that of the ‘hack writer’. The word ‘hack’ … writing had its own legacy, and it is interesting to see how the idea of ‘Grub Street’ as a social group of writers/artists that was on the margins of society – a notion that was clearly meant to stigmatize those authors as ‘not …
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