Living as an Author in the Romantic Period

Living as an Author in the Romantic Period
ISBN-10
303037047X
ISBN-13
9783030370473
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
372
Language
English
Published
2021-01-27
Publisher
Springer Nature
Author
Matthew Sangster

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.

Similar books