Literature At Nurse

by George Moore

2021-05-31 22:12:27

George Moore''s fierce polemic against the literary and social censorship of the Victorian select circulating libraries was a landmark in the history of English novel publishing. Moore wrote this broadside, and Henry Vizetelly published it, in 1885 -... Read more
George Moore''s fierce polemic against the literary and social censorship of the Victorian select circulating libraries was a landmark in the history of English novel publishing. Moore wrote this broadside, and Henry Vizetelly published it, in 1885 - both of them incensed at the arbitrary moral restrictions placed on the circulation of literature by Mudie''s select circulating library and by W.H. Smiths, which had both refused to stock Moore''s novels, A Modern Lover and A Mummer''s Wife. The significance of Moore''s tract gives it a sustained cultural relevance. Professor Coustillas presents it here with the full correspondence it aroused on first publication. This is critically assessed, and its ready availability again will prove it a valuable document for Victorian studies. Less

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ISBN9781911454199
George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist, and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who l...

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