Title Living as an author in the Romantic period / Matthew Sangster

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) Series Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print Palgrave studies in the Enlightenment, romanticism and cultures of print. Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Romanticism -- Great Britain Authors -- Salaries, etc. -- Great Britain English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism Authors -- Salaries, etc. English literature Intellectual life Romanticism SUBJECT Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056855 Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056856 Subject Great Britain Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 303037047X 9783030370473

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