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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Weber, Ronald, 1934- Hired pens. Athens : Ohio University Press, c1997 (OCoLC)605208382 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ronald Weber |
| ISBN: | 0821412043 9780821412046 0821412051 9780821412053 |
| OCLC Number: | 36969669 |
| Description: | 315 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Prologue. Clever authors of acceptable work : living by words on America's Grub street -- ch. 1. Light artillery of the intellect : the emergence of the versatile magazinists -- ch. 2. Cacoethes scribendi : women writers among the paying periodicals -- ch. 3. Laying pipes : fiction factories at full throttle -- ch. 4. That precious over-note : fictioneers among the pulps, slicks, and paperback originals -- ch. 5. Sublime tramps : newspaper journalism and the dream of the writing life -- ch. 6. Writing for the millions : newspaper syndicates expand the market -- ch. 7. Sporting life : field, stream, and playing field as material -- ch. 8. Facts of the matter : the vogue of biography, history, and current events -- ch. 9. Brass tacks : how to succeed at the writing game -- ch. 10. Gatekeepers : dominant editors in the glory days of magazines -- Epilogue. Sweet deal : writing for hire in the new age. |
| Responsibility: | Ronald Weber. |
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Abstract:
Hired Pens tells the story of the class of full-time independent professional writers who emerged in America in the 1830s and '40s and flourished during the great age of print that began after the Civil War and continued into the 1960s. While most accounts of the writing life focus on high-culture artists, Hired Pens treats authors who pursued the shifting popular tastes of Grub Street. Likewise it treats a literary marketplace that includes not only novels and poetry but gift annuals, story papers, general-circulation magazines, dime novels, pulp and slick magazines, newspaper syndicates, and paperback originals.
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- American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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- Literature publishing -- United States -- History.
- Journalism -- United States -- History.
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- Authors and publishers -- History -- United States
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- Journalism -- History -- United States
- Literature publishing -- History -- United States
