TY - BOOK ID - 2636602 TI - Literary patronage in England, 1650-1800 PY - 1996 SN - 0521560853 0521024463 0511519028 0511821719 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Authors and patrons KW - English literature KW - Literary patrons KW - Literature and society KW - Politics and literature KW - History KW - History and criticism. KW - History. KW - 18th century KW - History and criticism KW - Early modern, 1500-1700 KW - England KW - 17th century KW - Authors and patrons - England - History - 18th century. KW - Politics and literature - England - History. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Literature KW - Literary patronage KW - Maecenatism KW - Patronage of literature KW - Sponsorship of literature KW - Art patronage KW - Literature and state KW - Literature and sociology KW - Society and literature KW - Sociology and literature KW - Sociolinguistics KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2636602 AB - This is the first comprehensive study of the system of literary patronage in early modern England and it demonstrates that far from declining by 1750 - as many commentators have suggested - the system persisted, albeit in altered forms, throughout the eighteenth century. Combining the perspectives of literary, social and political history, Dustin Griffin lays out the workings of the patronage system and shows how authors wrote within that system, manipulating it to their advantage or resisting the claims of patrons by advancing counterclaims of their own. Professor Griffin describes the cultural economics of patronage and argues that literary patronage was in effect always 'political'. Chapters on individual authors, including Dryden, Swift, Pope and Johnson, as well as Edward Young, Richard Savage, Mary Leapor and Charlotte Lennox, address the author's role in the system, the rhetoric of dedications and the larger poetics of patronage. ER -