Jeremy Treglown / Bridget Bennett (eds.)

Grub Street and the Ivory Tower

Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet
Herausgeber: Treglown, Jeremy; Bennett, Bridget

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Produktbeschreibung

From Jenny Uglow's chapter on the journalistic world of Henry Fielding to Marjorie Perloff's praise for the impact of the Internet on poetry reviewing, Grub Street and the Ivory Tower gives lively case-histories of the commercial and institutional contexts of writing about writing, especially the vexed relationship between journalism and academe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780198184133
• ISBN-10: 0198184131
• Artikelnr.: 26624424

Autorenporträt

Treglown is a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* Fielding, Grub Street, and Canary Wharf
* Coleridge and the Uses of Journalism
* De Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow University Circles
* Journalism, Scholarship, and the University College London English
Department
* Darke conceits: Churton Collins, Edmund Gosse, and the Professions of
Criticism
* Literature, Propaganda, and the First World War: The Case of
Blackwood's Magazine
* `Crimes of Criticism': Virginia Woolf and Literary Journalism
* The TLS and the Second World War, and How to Fill Some Gaps in Modern
British Cultural History
* The Critic as Anti-Journalist: Leavis after Scrutiny
* Saving Lives: Kenneth Tynan and the Duties of Dramatic Criticism
* `Between the Saxon Smile and the Yankee Yawp': Problems and Contexts
of Literary Reviewing in Ireland
* What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: Some Aporias of
Literary Journalism
* Teachers, Writers
* Living on Writing
* Notes on Contributors
* Index