The Rise and Fall of the Man of Letters
English Literary Life since 1800
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Ivan R Dee, Inc
UK
1992
Paperback
368
Standard
261136
978-1-56663-000-9
1-56663-000-2
Annotation
In this new edition of his landmark book, John Gross traces the shifting fortunes of the men who shaped literary opinion in England during the Victorian, Edwardian, and contemporary eras. He brings together famous or forgotten critics and editors prophets, aesthetes, statesmen, dons, radicals, social climbers, idealists, gossipmongers, and literary lions and explores not only their critical ideas but also their personalities, careers, social backgrounds, and politics. He looks at "the higher journalism;" the expansion of the reading public, the byways of British liberalism, and the rise of literature as an academic subject, and the impact of modernism.
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