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The Rise of Grubstreet
Author(s) -
Barchas Janine
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
literature compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.158
H-Index - 4
ISSN - 1741-4113
DOI - 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2004.00063.x
Subject(s) - ephemera , scholarship , mainstream , individualism , lingua franca , literature , history , art , art history , political science , humanities , law
Hail the lowly Grubstreet hack! In the yeasty lingua franca of eighteenth‐century studies, where everything from certain genres to individualism is always described as ‘rising’, today's academic trends may herald ‘the rise of Grubstreet’. I comment below on three recent events in eighteenth‐century studies, all of which are gradually bringing so‐called Grubstreet productions into increasingly closer proximity with eighteenth‐century mainstream culture: the impact of textual studies, the republication of ephemera, and scholarship's radical quantitative trend.