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xiv, 239 pages : 22 cm When Grub Street: Studies in a Subculture was published in 1972, it met with a very generous reception and some helpful reviews; however, one criticisim was made that it attempted to cover too much ground. Professor Rogers has now produced a more economical and concentrated text consisting of the sections most directly concerned with the literary masterpieces exploring the Grub Street milieu, above all, The Duncaid and A Tale of a Tub. The book is thus organized more tightly to show the presence and use of London imagery in the work of Pope and Swift especially, and should be of interest to students of social history, London life, and seventeenth- and eighteenth-century urban developments as well as to readers of Augustan literature. --From cover Abridgement of: Grub Street: studies in a subculture, 1972 Includes bibliographical references and index Introduction : The topography of dulness -- Part I : The suburban muse. Meridian of Grub Street ; The caves of poverty and poetry ; Epic of Grub Street ; Men and places -- Part II : The plagues of dulness. The crowd in action ; The rage and the rabble ; Fire and fever ; Artery of dulness -- Part III : Swift and th

Author

Rogers, Pat; Rogers, Pat. Grub Street: studies in a subculture

Publisher

Methuen young books

Published

1980

Language

EN

ISBN

9780416742404

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities

Updated

2026-03-24