The hazards of professional authorship: polemic and fiction in Anthony Munday's English Roman Life

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam H. Kitzes
Keyword(s):  
Professional Authorship

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Margree ◽  
Daniel Orrells ◽  
Minna Vuohelainen
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Fin De Siecle ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Literary Production ◽  
Professional Authorship

The introduction to the volume sets Richard Marsh in his historical context and argues that our understanding of late-Victorian and Edwardian professional authorship remains incomplete without a consideration of Marsh’s oeuvre. The introduction discusses Marsh as an exemplary professional writer producing topical popular fiction for an expanding middlebrow market. The seeming ephemerality of his literary production meant that its value was not appreciated by twentieth-century critics who were constructing the English literary canon. Marsh’s writing, however, deserves to be reread, as its negotiation of mainstream and counter-hegemonic discourses challenges our assumptions about fin-de-siècle literary culture. His novels and short stories engaged with and contributed to contemporary debates about aesthetic and economic value and interrogated the politics of gender, sexuality, empire and criminality.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-190
Author(s):  
David A. Rennie
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Great War ◽  
Historical Culture ◽  
Professional Authorship ◽  
War Experience ◽  
The Great War

Rather than being defined by their membership of a particular constituency of ideological or sociopolitical war experience, writers hold and express complex and evolving views on the war. Studying authors’ careers reveals not only that their writing was influenced by the war, but that, simultaneously, the circumstances of their artistic and professional development shaped the manner and mode of their literary reactions. More than has been fully appreciated, American writers drew on native literary and historical culture to assess the Great War. Ultimately, however, American writing about the war was idiosyncratic, complex, and subject to change, as writers’ ongoing reactions to the war were influenced by the intricate group of intrapersonal and interpersonal variables that shaped professional authorship.

The Suppression of English Bards and Scotch Reviewers: An Unpublished Letter from Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
CHARLOTTE MAY
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Romantic Period ◽  
Political Opinion ◽  
Unpublished Letter ◽  
Publishing Houses ◽  
Professional Authorship

This article faithfully reproduces a letter from Lord Holland to Samuel Rogers, including deletions, hyphenated words, underlines, and paragraphs, to evidence how Samuel Rogers interceded in the suppression of a fifth edition of Byron’s English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Rogers’s knowledge of the publishing market, its publishing houses and successful authors, made him one of the most formidable and important of Byron’s acquaintances and contemporaries in the 1810s. This article demonstrates the important role of Rogers as an individual whose political negotiations and literary advice impacted the literary landscape of the Romantic period. The decision to suppress the fifth edition of English Bards also shows how Byron navigated literary and political opinion, as well as the role of sociability in the production and genetics of literary text. Professional authorship in the Romantic period was performed within this context of social networks.

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