To exercise our talents : the democratization of writing in Britain / / Christopher Hilliard

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910819908603321
• Autore: Hilliard Christopher
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-674-03865-7
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 390 p
• Collana: Harvard historical studies ; ; v. 150
• Classificazione: HM 1020
• Disciplina: 820.9/0091
• Soggetti: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Literature and society - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Authorship - Social aspects - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Democratization - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Social classes - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Working class - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Working class writings, English - History and criticism; Middle class - Great Britain - History - 20th century; Working class in literature; Middle class in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-363) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Literary History from Below -- Chapter 1. Middlemen, Markets, and Literary Advice -- Chapter 2. A Chance to Exercise Our Talents -- Chapter 3. Fiction and the Writing Public -- Chapter 4. In My Own Language about My Own People -- Chapter 5. Class, Patronage, and Literary Tradition -- Chapter 6. People's Writing and the People's War -- Chapter 7. The Logic of Our Times -- Chapter 8. Popular Writing after the War -- Conclusion: On or about the End of the Chatterley Ban -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscripts and Archives Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In twentieth-century Britain the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives and married women joining writers' clubs in ; search of creative outlets. In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of "ordinary" voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people--would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history--Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.