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Living as an Author in the Romantic Period

Part of the Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37047-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-37046-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Jan 28, 2021

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Preface: The Life of the Author

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 1 –12

[At the beginning of the twentieth century, existing as an author in Britain was a profoundly different prospect to what it had been at the beginning of the nineteenth. The vast expansion of the reading public, the availability of cheap print and the post-Romantic ideal of the literary work as...
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Introduction: What Was an Author in the Romantic Period?

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 13 –49

[The introduction considers the manners in which authorship functioned in the Romantic period, setting out key contexts for the chapters that follow. It opens by asserting that Romantic-period auditors seldom drew sharp distinctions between authors’ opinions and what they wrote, with books and...
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Chapter One: Publishers, Book Production and Profits

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 51 –82

[This chapter uses the John Murray and Longman Archives to break down the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century publishing industry from the author’s perspective, considering the implications of the high cost of books prior to the adoption of new print and distribution technologies during...
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Chapter Two: Sociable Alignments

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 83 –120

[This chapter addresses a major question raised by the previous chapter’s examination of the limited payments most authors received from publishers: if writers could not live on their publishing profits, how did they hope to benefit from their works? It reiterates that the primary reasons why...
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Chapter Three: Succeeding in ‘the Worst Trade’

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 121 –175

[This chapter considers the ways in which three writers leveraged their social advantages to construct enduring literary careers. Robert Southey first established himself with the aid of funds from family and friends; after securing contacts and recognition, he moved from conceiving of his...
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Chapter Four: The Working Writer

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 177 –231

[This chapter examines the difficulties that faced most authors who tried to construct literary careers in the period, employing the extensive archive of the Royal Literary Fund to show the serious obstacles that meant that many of those who sought to profit from their writings ended up neglected...
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Chapter Five: The Oligarchs of Literature: Authority and the Quarterly Reviews

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 233 –272

[This chapter looks at the EdinburghReview and the QuarterlyReview, contending that their conductors were pioneers in successfully professionalising literary activity. It examines how the quarterlies propagated their authority, arguing that they dominated conceptions of literature by bringing a...
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Chapter Six: Refashioning Authorship’s Purview

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 273 –315

[This chapter looks at three prominent authors who worked in concert with interlocking networks to reconfigure the circumstances of literary production and evaluation. It begins by examining Hannah More, arguing that her works played a major and underacknowledged role in shaping British culture...
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Coda: Print Proliferation and the Invention of the Artist

Sangster, Matthew

Pages: 317 –334

[The coda considers how William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Shelley and John Keats came belatedly to prominence by resisting their contemporary circumstances through creating tenets that positioned what became Romanticism as the dominant form of being literary. It argues that their...

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