Title Professional imaginative writing in England, 1670-1740 : hackney for bread / Brean S. Hammond

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 348 pages) 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 Summary 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 a widely-consumed commodity, as literacy improved, women entered the literary workplace, newspapers and periodicals emerged as distinct forms, and the novel became a recognized literary genre. The growth of writing as a profession was one of the most significant forces operating upon the nature of imaginative writing between 1670 and 1740, when large numbers of individuals were intent upon developing literary products that could succeed in the market-place. Taking proper account of this process involves a radical reconsideration of the period's literary sociology and of our present-day thinking about what is truly valuable in its writing The book is divided into three sections. Part I looks at the conceptual, ideological, and material conditions within which writers in this period worked, exploring the symbiotic relationship between an economy that offered greatly enhanced opportunities for literate and imaginative individuals to exploit their talents, and the legitimation of authorship as a means of making a living. Part II is devoted to the analysis of textual sites within which the status of professional vis a vis amateur writing can be observed in the process of emergence and contestation, while Part III looks at the forms of resistance that developed in the Pope, Swift, Gay, and Fielding circle towards professional writers, some of them female, who wished to have their work taken seriously while earning a decent living Hammond explores the distinctiveness of individual writers as well as the historical conditions in which they produced their work, and offers a new account of the period's literature that foregrounds the implications of the professionalization of authorship for a large number of writers, male and female, writing in all the major genres Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 308-329) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism Authorship -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 17th century Authorship -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 18th century Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century Books and reading -- England -- History -- 18th century Authorship -- Economic aspects Books and reading English literature English literature -- Early modern Literature and society Literatur Autor Engels. Letterkunde. Professionalisering. Auteurschap. Littérature et société -- Angleterre (GB) -- 17e siècle. Littérature et société -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle. Livres et lecture -- Angleterre (GB) -- Histoire. Écrivains -- Aspect économique -- Angleterre (GB) -- 17e siècle. Écrivains -- Aspect économique -- Angleterre (GB) -- 18e siècle. Littérature anglaise -- Histoire et critique. Geschichte 1640-1740. England Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191670909 0191670901

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