Living as an Author in the Romantic Period

Matthew Sangster is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Material Culture at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has published widely on Enlightenment libraries, literary institutions, Romantic metropolitanism, media culture, and the affordances of Fantasy.

• 1. Introduction: What was an Author in the Romantic Period?.- 2. Chapter One: Publishers, Book Production and Profits.- 3. Chapter Two: Sociable Alignments.- 4. Chapter Three: Succeeding in ‘the Worst Trade’.- 5. Chapter Four: The Working Writer.- 6.Chapter Five: The Oligarchs of Literature: Authority and the Quarterly Reviews.- 7. Chapter Six: Refashioning Authorship’s Purview.- 8. Coda: Print Proliferation and the Invention of the Artist