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"The Brain-Sucker: Or, the Distress of Authorship”: A Late Eighteenth-Century Satire of Grub Street
Published 2015-06-01Subjects: “…Grub Street…”
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Figures de l’exil dans New Grub Street de George Gissing
Published 2008-12-01“…The sense of exclusion is ubiquitous in George Gissing’s fiction ; whether it be heavily foregrounded from the title page, most notably in Born in Exile, or merely suggested by the intrinsic reality inseparably bound up with it. In New Grub Street, Gissing’s acknowledged masterpiece combining autobiographical resonances with an insider’s dissection of the contemporary literary scene, estrangement is raised to the level of systematised exile, it is monopolised and articulated as a logical predicate.This paper will look at Gissing’s comprehensive vertical exploration of the concepts of belonging and exclusion in this 1891 novel which, being deeply rooted in material and metaphysical uprooting, tremulously urges the paradox of exile at home.…”
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"The Brain-Sucker: Or, the Distress of Authorship”: A Late Eighteenth-Century Satire of Grub Street
Published 2015-06-01“…In the accompanying essay, we discuss the text’s context of origin in late eighteenth-century Grub Street and the cultural implications of its satirical presentation of authorship.…”
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Investigating the mutual interactions of 19th century western women and their environment in George Gissing’s New Grub Street and The Nether World
Published 2023“…The present article explores an Ecofeministic approach to two novels of George Gissing, New Grub Street (1891), The Nether World (1889) based on the two notions of oppression and domination. …”
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“The best in this kind are but shadows”:
Published 2020-09-01“…This paper aims to identify the very process through which a writerly vision comes true as an author decidedly chooses creative sincerity over domestic comfort as seen in George Gissing’s 1891 novel, New Grub Street, and Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman, a DC Vertigo comic series (1993). …”
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Laetitia Pilkington and the mnemonic self
Published 2018“…Although Pilkington draws heavily upon biographical details of her life as Swift acolyte, scandalous divorcee and Grub Street demimondaine, she supplements personal memory with her ‘astonishing’ memory for literary texts. …”
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Nicolas Lenglet Dufresnoy and the literary underworld of the ancien régime
Published 2017“…Acceptability if not respectability: 1740-1749 <br/> The twilight zone of Grub Street: financial insecurity in the later years <br/> New departures: from Voltaire to occultism <br/> Historian of France or subverter of the monarchy: chafing at the bit <br/> Consolidation of established interests <br/> Politics and propaganda <br/> 6. …”
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A propos des écrits sur le théâtre au dix-huitième siècle
Published 2017“…<em>La Mimeographe</em> de Restif de la Bretonne<br/> Bibliographie générale <br/><br/> From Beaumarchais to Chénier: the <em>droits d’auteur</em> and the fall of the Comédie-Française<br/> Sean McMeekin<br/> Building on the precedent of Beaumarchais’s aggressive lobbying of the crown in the late 1770s, a new generation of dramatists, led by Marie-Joseph Chenier, fought both in the Assembly and on Grub Street to turn the Comédie-Française into an obedient organ of authors recognised by the government as public educators. …”
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Peripheries of the Enlightenment
Published 2017“…The case of the Anglicans<br/> John Robertson, Political economy and the ‘feudal system’ in Enlightenment Naples: outline of a problem<br/> Marie-Christine Skuncke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Swedish eyes around 1760<br/> Orsolya Szakály, Enlightened self-interest: the development of an entrepreneurial culture within the Hungarian elite<br/> Martin Fitzpatrick, The view from Mount Pleasant: Enlightenment in late eighteenth-century Liverpool<br/> Simon Burrows, Grub Street revolutionaries: marginal writers at the Enlightenment’s periphery?…”
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Samuel Johnson and the vocation of the author
Published 2016“…The question of the ‘dignity of literature’, a contested point during the nineteenth century, was alive in Johnson’s time, and through his associations with what he himself called ‘Grub Street’, he lived and worked among many writers who might be thought undignified. …”
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