Grub Street (Routledge Revivals)

First published in 1972, this is the first detailed study of the milieu of the eighteenth-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. With detailed studies of a number of key authors, as well as the modern and metaphorical development of the term `Grub Street¿, this book offers comprehensive insight into the nature of Augustan literature and the social conditions and concerns that inspired it.