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Living as an author in the Romantic period

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Living as an author in the Romantic periodby Matthew Sangster.
Author:	Sangster, Matthew.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021.
Description:	xii, 372 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	RomanticismGreat Britain.
Subject:	Great BritainEconomic policy1979-1997.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37047-3
ISBN:	9783030370473$q(electronic bk.)

Living as an author in the Romantic period
Sangster, Matthew.

Living as an author in the Romantic period[electronic resource] /by Matthew Sangster. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2021. - xii, 372 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print,2634-6516. - Palgrave studies in the enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print..

1. Introduction: What was an Author in the Romantic Period? -- 2. Chapter One: Publishers, Book Production and Profits -- 3. Chapter Two: Sociable Alignments -- 4. Chapter Three: Succeeding in 'the Worst Trade' -- 5. Chapter Four: The Working Writer -- 6.Chapter Five: The Oligarchs of Literature: Authority and the Quarterly Reviews -- 7. Chapter Six: Refashioning Authorship's Purview -- 8. Coda: Print Proliferation and the Invention of the Artist.

'Living as an Author in the Romantic Period seeks to explode the notion that the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries oversaw a transformation of the literary economy into one in which professional authors could make a living exclusively off their writing. The author's detailed work with neglected archives, especially publishers' ledgers and the Royal Literary Fund papers, fuels several original claims about authorship in the romantic period. This is a book that will matter and possibly even be field-changing.' - Michael Gamer, British Academy Global Professor (QMUL) and author of Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (2017) 'Matthew Sangster's new book provides a compelling revision of the standard account of the advent of professional authorship in the early nineteenth century. Using remarkable archive material from publishers combined with other institutional records folded into engrossing case histories of individual writers, Living as an Author in the Romantic Period reveals that the death of patronage has been prematurely announced. Even as writing became bound up with an array of networked cultural activities in a reconstituting field of literary production, marvellously brought to life in Sangster's study, the career of the writer as a singular occupation remained out-of-reach for most of its aspirants.' - Jon Mee, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of York, UK 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.

ISBN: 9783030370473$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-37047-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

174117
Romanticism
--Great Britain.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

381151
Great Britain
--Economic policy--1979-1997.

LC Class. No.: PR448.A87 / S264 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 820.9007

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