Grub Street: studies in a subculture

First edition. A detailed study of the milieu of the 18th-century literary hack and its significance in Augustan literature. Dr. Rogers sets out to show that the major contemporary satirists - Pope, Swift and Fielding - built a potent fiction around the circumstances in which the hackers lived, and that this is a neglected but important aspect of their work. Index, notes, appendices. xvi, ii ,430 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo..