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Living as an author in the romantic period /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sangster, Matthew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print.
Subjects:
Romanticism > Great Britain.
Authorship > History > 18th century.
Authorship > History > 19th century.
Authors > Salaries, etc. > Great Britain.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Great Britain > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Authors > Salaries, etc.
English literature.
Intellectual life.
Romanticism.
Great Britain.
1700-1899
Table of Contents:
  • The life of the author
  • What was an author in the Romantic period?
  • Publishers, book production and profits
  • Sociable alignments
  • The working writer
  • The oligarchs of literature: authority and the quarterly reviews
  • Refashioning authorship's purview
  • Print proliferation and the invention of the artist.