To Exercise Our Talents
The Democratization of Writing in Britain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8090385 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Hilliard (0000-0001-8216-1382, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Pages | 400 |
| Publication date | 2006-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | To Exercise Our Talents (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.4159/9780674038653 |
| OpenAlex | W1538944034 |
| Open Library | OL29569753M |
| ISBN | 9780674038653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
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
Irish and British Studies · Psychology · 20th century · Authorship · Democracy · Democratization · English literature · English Working class writings · Great britain · History · History and criticism · Literature and society · Middle class · Middle class in literature · Political science · Social aspects · Social aspects of Authorship · Social classes · Working class · Working class in literature
Organizational Learning and Home-Grown Writing
Children’s Writing and the Popular Press in England 1876–1914
Pioneers of Modernity
Bundles and mailings
Biografías negociadas
A Rather Spectacular Figure”
The Uses of Nostalgia
Terrains of Media Work; Producing Amateurs and Professionals in the 19th-Century United States
Open genre, new possibilities
Instamatic living rooms of sin”
Literary geography
Wilhelm Reich and Sexology from Below
Revisiting Southam Street
The Penguins Are Coming”
Private Lives, Public Histories
Whose Democracy? Histories of British Political Culture Between the Wars
Commodifying the Self Within
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 16 |