Author: Matthew Sangster
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303037047X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
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.
Living as an Author in the Romantic Period
Author: Matthew Sangster
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303037047X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 303037047X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
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.
Index of Manuscripts in the British Library
Author: British Library. Department of Manuscripts
Publisher: Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Publisher: Cambridge, England : Chadwyck-Healey
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Catalogue of Autographs, Etc
Author: Dobell, P. J. & A. E., booksellers, London
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum
Author: British Library. Dept. of Manuscripts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 804
Book Description
Sister Novelists
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635575303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635575303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontës. Before the Brontë sisters picked up their pens, or Jane Austen's heroines Elizabeth and Jane Bennet became household names, the literary world was celebrating a different pair of sisters: Jane and Anna Maria Porter. The Porters-exact contemporaries of Jane Austen-were brilliant, attractive, self-made single women of polite reputation who between them published 26 books and achieved global fame. They socialized among the rich and famous, tried to hide their family's considerable debt, and fell dramatically in and out of love. Their moving letters to each other confess every detail. Because the celebrity sisters expected their renown to live on, they preserved their papers, and the secrets they contained, for any biographers to come. But history hasn't been kind to the Porters. Credit for their literary invention was given to their childhood friend, Sir Walter Scott, who never publicly acknowledged the sisters' works as his inspiration. With Scott's more prolific publication and even greater fame, the Porter sisters gradually fell from the pinnacle of celebrity to eventual obscurity. Now, Professor Devoney Looser, a Guggenheim fellow in English Literature, sets out to re-introduce the world to the authors who cleared the way for Austen, Mary Shelley, and the Brontë sisters. Capturing the Porter sisters' incredible rise, from when Anna Maria published her first book at age 14 in 1793, through to Jane's fall from the pinnacle of fame in the Victorian era, and then to the auctioning off for a pittance of the family's massive archive, Sister Novelists is a groundbreaking and enthralling biography of two pioneering geniuses in historical fiction.
Mrs. Brookfield and Her Circle
Author: Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
P.J. & A.E. Dobell Book Sale Catalogs
Author: P.J. & A.E. Dobell (Firm)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
1848-1874
Author: Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Jane Journeys on
Author: Ruth Comfort Mitchell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Golden Rule
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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