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To exercise our talents : the democratization of writing in Britain /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
©2006.
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| Colección: | Harvard historical studies ;
v. 150. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (390 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-363) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674038653 0674038657 9780674021778 0674021770 |