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New Grub Street's Ecologies of Paper

Victorian studies, 2018-09, Vol.61 (1), p.60-82 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
New Grub Street's Ecologies of Paper
Author: Menke, Richard
Subjects: 1800-1899 ; 19th century ; Aesthetics ; Age ; Analysis ; Authors ; Authorship ; Authorship in literature ; Bibliography ; Capitalism ; Consciousness ; Criticism and interpretation ; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870) ; ecocritical approach ; English Literature ; environmental crisis ; Evaluation ; Galsworthy, John (1867-1933) ; Gissing, George ; Gissing, George Robert ; History of Publishing and Bookselling ; Mass Production ; Media ; New Grub Street ; Nineteenth Century ; novel ; Novelists ; Novels ; Papermaking ; Plot (Narrative) ; Printing History ; Publishers and publishing in literature ; Publishing ; Publishing industry ; Pulp & paper industry ; Sociology ; technology ; Turn of the century ; Victorian period ; Wood pulp industry ; Writing
Is Part Of: Victorian studies, 2018-09, Vol.61 (1), p.60-82
Description: This essay argues that George Gissing's novel New Grub Street (1891)—long noted for its powerful, if gloomy, representation of late-Victorian authorship and publishing—not only presupposes but also critically incorporates the era's epochal transition from rag paper to paper made from harvested esparto grass and wood pulp. In Gissing's treatment of industrialized publishing, the trade in printed writing takes on central features of the thriving paper industry carefully placed in the novel's background, including its linking of overproduction via inexpensive inputs to the specter of wholesale devastation. Reading New Grub Street as a novel on paper draws our attention to the resource ecologies and even the natural histories of late-nineteenth-century authorship, media, and print capitalism.
Publisher: Bloomington: Indiana University Press
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0042-5222
ISSN: 1527-2052
EISSN: 1527-2052
DOI: 10.2979/victorianstudies.61.1.03
Source: ProQuest Central

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