"The Brain-Sucker: Or, the Distress of Authorship”: A Late Eighteenth-Century Satire of Grub Street
Originally printed in the first issue of The British Mercury in 1787, “The Brain-Sucker: Or, the Distress of Authorship” is a piece of satirical short fiction that has so far received only little attention in discussions of eighteenth-century print culture and practices of authorship. Probably writt...
Main Author: | Jasper Schelstraete |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Ghent University
2015-06-01
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Series: | Authorship |
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Online Access: | http://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/id/63943/ |
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