18th Century
The Rise of Grubstreet
By by , University of Texas at Austin (December 2005)
Sections: 18th Century
Subject: Literature.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1700-1799.
Key Topics: literary criticism , texts, history of the book and printing.
Hail the lowly Grubstreet hack! In the yeasty lingua franca of eighteenth-century studies, where everything from certain genres to individualism is always described as ‘rising’, today's academic trends may herald ‘the rise of Grubstreet’. I comment below on three recent events in eighteenth-century studies, all of which are gradually bringing so-called Grubstreet productions into increasingly closer proximity with eighteenth-century mainstream culture: the impact of textual studies, the republication of ephemera, and scholarship's radical quantitative trend.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00063.x
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