Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… discussions of Grub Street often implied that its members were in some ways socially organized. The all-encompassing nature of Pope’s attacks in the Dunciad that included a host of people all seemingly united in their worship of dullness strengthened this perspective, as did the polyphonic nature of the Dunciad’s paratexts, especially the footnotes, in which the critics constantly seem to enter into absurd … the mythologizing of eighteenth-century literature. For Victorian writers, Grub Street came to signify the transitional nature of the eighteenth-century book market, which was not yet evolved enough to provide writers with a steady income, …
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