454 Pages
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Routledge
462 Pages
by
Routledge
454 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Although the modern term ‘Grub Street’ has declined into vague metaphor, for the Augustan satirists it embodied not only an actual place but an emphatic lifestyle. Pat Rogers shows that the major satirists – Pope, Swift and Fielding – built a... Read more
Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Topography of Dulness; 1. The Suburban Muse 2. The Plagues of Dulness 3. The Criteria of Duncehood 4. Swift and the Scribbler 5. Life Studies 6. The Grub Street Myth; Appendix A: Evidence from the Rate-Books; Appendix B: The Trades of Grub Street; Appendix C: A Grub Street Ode; Index
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Pat Rogers
