To Exercise Our Talents : : The Democratization of Writing in Britain /

To Exercise Our Talents : : The Democratization of Writing in Britain / / Christopher Hilliard.

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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 t...

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Hilliard, Christopher,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Harvard Historical Studies ; 150
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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