Grub Street (Routledge Revivals): Studies in a Subculture

by Pat Rogers

Book Overview

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 potent fiction surrounding the real circumstances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138024805
• ISBN13: 9781138024809
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"