Professional imaginative writing in England, 1670-1740 : hackney for bread /
Professional Imaginative Writing in England, 1670-1740 provides a much-needed overview of the social, political, economic, and institutional contexts within which imaginative writing developed during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It was in this period that such writing became...
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| Format: | Government Document eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford :
Clarendon Press,
1997.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 'Hackney for bread' : Literary property ; Marketing the literary imagination
- Cultural broking : An allusion to Horace, Jonson's ghost, and the rhetoric of plagiarism ; The mock-heroic moment in the 1690's ; Conversing with pictures: the periodical and the polite
- The scriblerians and their enemies : Canon fodder ; 'A poet, and a patron, and ten pounds': politics, cultural politics, and the scriblerians ; Piddling on broccoli: Pope's menu and his ideology.