TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hilliard,Christopher
TI  - To Exercise Our Talents: The Democratization of Writing in Britain
T2  - Harvard Historical Studies
SN  - 9780674038653
AV  - PR478 
U1  - 820.9/0091 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - English literature-20th century-History and criticism
KW  - Literature and society-Great Britain-History-20th century
KW  - Authorship-Social aspects-Great Britain-History-20th century
KW  - Democratization-Great Britain-History-20th century
KW  - Social classes-Great Britain-History-20th century
KW  - Working class-Great Britain-History-20th century
KW  - Working class writings, English-History and criticism
KW  - Middle class-Great Britain-History-20th century
KW  - Working class in literature
KW  - Middle class in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Literary History From Below -- 1 Middlemen, Markets, and Literary Advice -- 2 A Chance to Exercise Our Talents -- 3 Fiction and the Writing Public -- 4 In My Own Language about My Own People -- 5 Class, Patronage, and Literary Tradition -- 6 People's Writing and the People's War -- 7 The Logic of Our Times -- 8 Popular Writing after the War -- Conclusion: On or About the End of the Chatterley Ban -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Manuscripts and Archives Consulted -- Acknowledgments -- Index
N2  - 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
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