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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Harvard Historical StudiesPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (401 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674038653
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: To Exercise Our TalentsDDC classification:
  • 820.9/0091
LOC classification:
  • PR478
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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