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



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Autore: Hilliard Christopher Visualizza persona
Titolo: To exercise our talents : the democratization of writing in Britain / / Christopher Hilliard Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, c2006
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 390 p
Disciplina: 820.9/0091
Soggetto topico: 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
Classificazione: HM 1020
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.
Titolo autorizzato: To exercise our talents  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-674-03865-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910819908603321
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Serie: Harvard historical studies ; ; v. 150.