To exercise our talents : the democratization of writing in Britain

To exercise our talents : the democratization of writing in Britain / Christopher Hilliard.

In twentieth-century Britain the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives and married women joining writers' clubs in search of creative outlets. In t...

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Main Author: Hilliard, Christopher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, ©2006.
Series:Harvard historical studies ; v. 150.
Subjects:
1900-1999
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Authorship > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Democratization > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Social classes > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Working class > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Working class writings, English > History and criticism.
Middle class > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Working class in literature.
Middle class in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Authorship > Social aspects
Democratization
English literature
Literature and society
Middle class
Middle class in literature
Social classes
Working class
Working class in literature
Working class writings, English
Geschiedenis.
Schrijven.
Sociale verandering.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Summary:In twentieth-century Britain the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives and married women joining writers' clubs in search of creative outlets. In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of "ordinary" voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people--would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history--Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age
Physical Description:1 online resource (390 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-363) and index.
ISBN:9780674038653
0674038657
9780674021778
0674021770
Language:In English.
Reproduction Note:Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.
Action Note:digitized

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