Living as an Author in the Romantic Period 1st Edition

Living as an Author in the Romantic Period 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030370466,3030370461,9783030370473, 303037047X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 303037047X
• ISBN-13: 9783030370473
• Author: Matthew Sangster

This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with publishers; the challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers (particularly the less privileged) from accruing significant rewards; the rhetorical professionalisation of periodicals; and the manners in which emerging paradigms and technologies catalysed a belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and perceived.

Table contents:

Chapter One: Publishers, Book Production and Profits
Chapter Two: Sociable Alignments
Chapter Three: Succeeding in ‘the Worst Trade’
Chapter Four: The Working Writer
Chapter Five: The Oligarchs of Literature: Authority and the Quarterly Reviews
Chapter Six: Refashioning Authorship’s Purview

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