Titlebook: Living as an Author in the Romantic Period; Matthew Sangster Book 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive li

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2634-6516 erging paradigms and technologies catalysed a belated transformation in how literary writing was consumed and perceived..978-3-030-37049-7978-3-030-37047-3Series ISSN 2634-6516 Series E-ISSN 2634-6524

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2634-6516 ocial system, rather than a profession or mode of artistic p.This book explores how authors profited from their writings in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, contending that the most tangible benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interaction

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Chapter Two: Sociable Alignments,ry Hays as a key example. Subsequently, it looks at the distinct and personal justification for literary self-fashioning that writers constructed in letters, focusing particularly on Leigh Hunt and the Shelleys. Finally, it concludes by considering how female writers participated in the collaborative formation of social systems of legitimation.

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,Chapter Six: Refashioning Authorship’s Purview,judiciously-managed self-presentations to create an oppositional space for alienated genius. This position would prove invaluable both to later writers and to institutions considering how best to promote literature’s contribution.

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Book 2021benefits were social, rather than financial or aesthetic. It examines authors’ interactions with publishers; the challenges of literary sociability; the vexed construction of enduring careers; the factors that prevented most aspiring writers (particularly the less privileged) from accruing significa

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Chapter One: Publishers, Book Production and Profits,a series of Longman editions of James Montgomery’s poem .; and collusion and co-operation in the publishing industry discussed using correspondence from both archives. These analyses combine to demonstrate that for most literary authors, the prospects for deriving direct profits from publishing their works were relatively limited.

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Coda: Print Proliferation and the Invention of the Artist, in which the increasing distance between authors and new readers created situations where new periodicals and institutions needed to advocate both for their own value and the value of literature. The lives and works of the Romantics proved ideally placed both for exalting artistic practice and for profiting from biographical fascination.