Grub Street and the Ivory Tower: Literary Journalism and Literary Scholarship from Fielding to the Internet

by Jeremy Treglown, Bridget Bennett

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198184133
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/25/1999
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

About the Author

both at University of Warwick

Table of Contents

IntroductionFielding, Grub Street, and Canary Wharf, Jenny UglowColeridge and the Uses of Journalism, Zachary LeaderDe Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow University Circles, Grevel LindopJournalism, Scholarship, and the University College London English Department, John SutherlandDarke conceits: Churton Collins, Edmund Gosse, and the Professions of Criticism, Valentine CunninghamLiterature, Propaganda, and the First World War: The Case of Blackwood's Magazine, David Finkelstein‘Crimes of Criticism': Virginia Woolf and Literary Journalism, Hermione LeeThe TLS and the Second World War, and How to Fill Some Gaps in Modern British Cultural History, Jeremy TreglownThe Critic as Anti-Journalist: Leavis after Scrutiny, Stefan ColliniSaving Lives: Kenneth Tynan and the Duties of Dramatic Criticism, John Stokes‘Between the Saxon Smile and the Yankee Yawp': Problems and Contexts of Literary Reviewing in Ireland, Edna LongleyWhat We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism, Marjorie PerloffTeachers, Writers, Karl MillerLiving on Writing, Lorna SageNotes on ContributorsIndex