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

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Jeremy Treglown, Bridget Bennett
Clarendon Press, 1998 - Computers - 292 pages
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.
 

Contents

Introduction
11
Coleridge and the Uses of Journalism
22
De Quincey and the Edinburgh and Glasgow
41
Journalism Scholarship and the University College
58
Churton Collins Edmund Gosse
72
Virginia Woolf and Literary
112
The TLS in the Second World War and How
135
Leavis after Scrutiny
151
Kenneth Tynan and the Duties
177
What We Dont Talk About When We Talk About
224
Teachers Writers
250
Living on Writing
262
Notes on Contributors
277
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Treglown is a former editor of the Times Literary Supplement