Grub Street [ Cities / Literary & Artistic genres ]
… 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 eighteenth-century discourse … popular success like the novels by Defoe or Richardson, which made their authors money without resorting to the residual patronage that is still contained in publishing by subscription. Whether he liked it or not, Pope was a part of the … provide writers with a steady income, but which had already lost the traditional financial support through aristocratic patronage. As Thomas Macaulay writes about Samuel Johnson in 1831: ‘Johnson came up to London precisely at the time when …
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