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

by Treglown, Jeremy; Bennett, Bridget

• ISBN13: 9780198184133
• ISBN10: 0198184131
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-02-25
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
1. Fielding, Grub Street, and Canary Wharf	1	(21)
JENNY UGLOW
2. Coleridge and the Uses of Journalism	22	(19)
ZACHARY LEADER
3. De Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow University Circles	41	(17)
GREVEL LINDOP
4. Journalism, Scholarship, and the University College London English Department	58	(14)
JOHN SUTHERLAND
5. Darke Conceits: Churton Collins, Edmund Gosse, and the Professions of Criticism	72	(19)
VALENTINE CUNNINGHAM
6. Literature, Propaganda, and the First World War: The Case of Blackwood's Magazine	91	(21)
DAVID FINKELSTEIN
7. `Crimes of Criticism': Virginia Woolf and Literary Journalism	112	(23)
HERMIONE LEE
8. The TLS in the Second World War and How to Fill Some Gaps in Modern British Cultural History	135	(16)
JEREMY TREGLOWN
9. The Critic as Journalist: Leavis after Scrutiny	151	(26)
STEFAN COLLINI
10. Saving Lives: Kenneth Tynan and the Duties of Dramatic Criticism	177	(23)
JOHN STOKES
11. `Between the Saxon Smile and Yankee Yawp': Problems and Contexts of Literary Reviewing in Ireland	200	(24)
EDNA LONGLEY
12. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism	224	(26)
MARJORIE PERLOFF
13. Teachers, Writers	250	(12)
KARL MILLER
14. Living on Writing	262	(15)
LORNA SAGE
Notes on Contributors	277	(3)
Index	280