Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Further reading -- General introduction -- Introduction to volume III -- Part 1 The literary profession -- 1.1 The 1830s and 1840s: the argument for professionalisation -- 1 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Literature considered as a profession -- 2 Edward Bulwer Lytton, Proposals for a literary union -- 3 Authorship as a profession, The London Saturday Journal -- 4 The position of literary men, Chambers's Journal -- 5 W. M. Thackeray, A brother of the press on the history of a literary man, Laman Blanchard, and the chances of the literary profession -- In a letter to the Reverend Francis Sylvester at Rome, from Michael Angelo Titmarsh, Esq -- 6 G. H. Lewes, The condition of authors in England, Germany, and France -- 1.2 The 'dignity of literature' debate -- 7 Leader, Morning Chronicle 3 January 1850 -- 8 W. M. Thackeray, The dignity of literature -- 9 John Forster, The dignity of literature -- 10 Charles Dickens, The guild of literature and art -- 1.3 The professional writer from mid-century -- 11 The profession of literature, Westminster Review -- 12 Alexader Innes Shand, Outlying professions -- 13 Walter Besant, Literature as a career, Review of Reviews -- 14 G. Herbert Thring, The society of authors (incorporated) -- 15 Literature as a pursuit and as a profession, Saturday Review -- Part 2 Periodical writers and periodical writing -- 2.1 The expansion of the periodical press -- 16 William Hazlitt, The periodical press -- 17 James Mill, Periodical literature: Edinburgh review I -- 18 Claim of periodical writers to participate in the benefits of "the literary fund", Hood's Magazine 6, 2 -- 19 James Fitzjames Stephen, Periodical writing, Saturday Review -- 20 Mr. Sala on life in London, Saturday Review.
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