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21. Notes of a War Correspondent by Annie Roe Carr | |
Paperback: 144
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(2003-09)
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22. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays or Rescuing the Runaways by Annie Roe Carr | |
Hardcover: 184
Pages
(2006-05-30)
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23. Nan Sherwood at Palm Beach by Annie Roe Carr | |
Kindle Edition:
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(2008-02-03)
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24. Nan Sherwood At Rose Ranch; or the Old Mexican's Treasure (Nan Sherwood Series) by Annie Roe Carr | |
Hardcover: 246
Pages
(1919)
Asin: B000LBVPS4 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
25. NAN SHERWOOD AT PINE CAMP [ OR THE OLD LUMBERMANS SECRET] by CARR ROE ANNIE | |
Hardcover:
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(1916)
Asin: B000MN2PPS Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
26. New Grub Street by Annie Roe Carr | |
Paperback: 560
Pages
(2003-09)
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Gissing's shade would smile
Doesn't deserve obscurity
Insightinto the Victorian Writing/Publishing Scene Why do I say this so confidently?Well, as Gissing was particularly self-aware and as he was particularly oppressed when writing "New Grub Street," in this novel he writes about what it's like to be a writer in London in the 1880's and 1890's.He essentially writes about his own life and those he find around him, all of whom are trying to make a living on writing. Gissings seems to portray himself through the main character, Reardon. When the story opens, Reardon is struggling.His sophisticated wife is getting fed up with their impoverished lifestyle and with her husband's inability to write decent material.Reardon, a sensitive soul, is floundering under mounting pressure and stress.He is torn between his desire to write sophisticated, meaningful material and the public demand for "fluff."The more stressed laid on him, the less he is able to create and stick with any plausible fiction novel.He becomes more and more fererish and unable to work, and he is devastated as he loses his wife's love and respect. Around this central character Reardon, Gissing builds a very full and weighty cast of characters.A small sampling of these characters are: I found myself continually amazed at Gissing's amazing ability to get into the head of many individuals in his large cast and to see how the world makes sense through each's eyes.Gissing also provides us with a wealth of information about the Victorian publishing scene.It was amazing to read that writers and publishers then were struggling with the same issues writers and publishers are struggling with today. Additionally, Gissing gives you an unglorified look at poverty and the impoverished educated class of London at that time.While Dickens' works on the poor is idyllic and sentimental, Gissing simply relates the life he has known.There is nothing exceptional or amazing, and Gissing seems to argue that poverty takes character out of a man rather then build up a man's character. Overall, I found this to be a fascinating piece...though perhaps a slow read.For those interested in publishing, writing, realistic portrayals of Victorian England, or other such topics, this is a fantastic work.
Whither Arnold's "Sweetness and Light?" Milvain identifies as vulgar the most lucrative market for the product of the man of letter's labor.The vulgarians, or "quarter educated," drive the market (479), and since they have been determined to desire nothing more than chatty ephemera, they have successfully opened an insuperable gulf between material success in writing and artistic success.Reardon's psychologically penetrating novels just aren't in demand.Therefore, there emerges quite an interesting conceptual shift within the nascent hegemony of the quarter-educated as established by their purchasing power: what was once considered healthy artistic integrity has transmuted into a peculiar kind of petit bourgeois hubris, if, in the new paradigm, the writer is more an artisan than an artist.Therefore, Reardon's artistically-compromised and padded three-volume novel, written with no other end in mind than to pander to the vulgar reader, nonetheless achieves only modest success because, the fact that it is indistinguishable from countless other similar works glutting the market aside, his novel is infected from his irrepressible integrity, and thus his novel becomes a strange sort of counterfeit, a psychological narrative masquerading as a popular novel.Reardon thus becomes a sort of Coriolanus among writers. Milvain, on the other hand, is a sort of Henry Ford among writers; he reveals his particular genius when offering advice to his sister Maud about how to write religious works for juveniles: "I tell you, writing is a business.Get together half-a-dozen fair specimens of the Sunday school prize; study them; discover the essential points of such a composition; hit upon new attractions; then go to work methodically, so many pages a day" (13).In other words, Jasper has managed to streamline and to mechanize the writing process.He studies previous works, abstracts formulae from them, isolates the elements of these formulae, and then deploys and rearranges these elements to give his own writing a patina of originality.By treating writing as an exercise in manipulating formulae, Jasper exchanges "authenticity" (whatever that word means anymore) for the convenience and efficiency of not having to grapple with his own potentially mutable and recalcitrant genius.Jasper did not invent writing, just as Ford did not invent the automobile.But like Ford did with automobile manufacture, Milvain discovers those aspects of writing that lend themselves to mechanical reproduction.Thus he is able to capitalize on his time and effort, and effectively becomes the very machine Reardon believes himself to be but never actually becomes because of his lingering notions of artistic integrity (352). Also of interest is the fact that Albert Yule is a sort of synthesis of Milvain and Reardon.Like Milvain, Yule attempts to streamline his own literary production by delegating some of the labor to his daughter Marian.However, like Reardon, Yule clings to the superannuated notion of the necessary individuality of writing: "[h]is failings, obvious enough, were the results of a strong and somewhat pedantic individuality ceaselessly at conflict with unpropitious circumstances" (38).In other words, Yule fails to recognize the obsolescence of the lone, learned genius within the realm of literary production.A market of vulgarians who demand occasional literary confections simply does not expect Works of individual genius.Moreover, even if they were in demand, works of individual genius are too ponderously inefficient to keep pace with the rate at which they are consumed.Therefore, Yule straddles the either/or proposition personified by Reardon and Milvain: One may preserve his artistic integrity and write "for the ages"--hence Yule, Biffen, and Reardon's fetishization of Shakespeare, Coleridge and authors of classical antiquity--and starve in the process, or one may write "for the moment" and actually turn a respectable profit. The shadow of Charles Darwin indeed looms large over the events and characters of New Grub Street. The growth market brought about by the advent of the "quarter-educated" vulgar class, and their discretionary income coupled with their callow aesthetic sensibilities and truncated attention spans, represents a nascent economic, if not ecological niche, for certain social creatures to occupy.However, it's not simply a matter of being able to adapt one's skills to the tastes of these consumers.One must also be a prodigious enough writer to keep pace with an equally prodigious rate of consumption.Individuals like Milvain and Whelpdale are adequately adapted to this niche in that they satisfy the demands of this niche in terms of both content and output.Reardon panders to the vulgar taste only grudgingly and after long resistance and thereby cannot meet the production demands of this niche.Biffen absolutely refuses to pander at all.Alfred Yule does attempt to pander, but his mode of literary production is too inefficient to meet production demands, and he is also largely ignorant of vulgar literary taste.While more in touch with the vulgar reader than her father, Marian Yule is as inefficient in her literary production as her father.Therefore, each of the characters named above are equally maladaptive, albeit for various reasons, and thus their extinction by the novel's end strikes the reader as somehow inevitable.Whereas Milvain and Reardon's widow Amy are left to come together as the triumphant niche occupants and thus reproduce themselves in their offspring, should they decide to produce any.
The Hateful Spirit of Literary Rancour The anti-heroes of "New Grub Street" are presented to us as the novel begins - Jasper Milvain is a young, if somewhat impoverished, but highly ambitious man, eager to be a figure of influence in literary society at whatever cost.His friend, Edwin Reardon, on the other hand, was brought up on the classics, and toils away in obscurity, determined to gain fame and reputation through meaningful, psychological, and strictly literary fiction.Family matters beset the two - Jasper has two younger sisters to look out for, and Edwin has a beautiful and intelligent wife, who has become expectant of Edwin's potential fame.Throw into the mix Miss Marian Yule, daughter of a declining author of criticism, whose own reputation was never fully realized, and who has indentured his daughter to literary servitude, and we have a pretty list of discontented and anxious people struggling in the cut-throat literary marketplace of London. Money is of supreme importance in "New Grub Street," and it would be pointless to write a review without making note of it.As always, the literary life is one which is not remunerative for the mass of people who engage upon it, and this causes no end of strife in the novel.As Milvain points out, the paradox of making money in the literary world is that one must have a well-known reputation in order to make money from one's labours.At the same time, one must have money in order to move in circles where one's reputation may be made.This is the center of the novel's difficulties - should one or must one sacrifice principles of strictly literary fame and pander to a vulgar audience in order to simply survive?The question is one in which Reardon finds the greatest challenges to his marriage, his self-esteem, and even his very existence.For Jasper Milvain and his sisters, as well as for Alfred and Marian Yule, there is no question that the needs of subsistence outweigh most other considerations. "New Grub Street" profoundly questions the relevance of classic literature and high culture to the great mass of people, and by proxy, to the nation itself.For England, which propagated its sense of international importance throughout the nineteenth century by encouraging the study of English literature in its colonial holdings, the matter becomes one of great significance.The careers of Miss Dora Milvain and Mr. Whelpdale, easily the novel's two most charming, endearing, and sympathetic characters, attempt to illustrate the ways in which modern literature may be profitable to both the individual who writes it and the audiences towards which they aim.They may be considered the moral centers of the novel, and redeem Gissing's work from being entirely fatalistic. "New Grub Street" is a novel that will haunt me for quite some time.As a "man of letters" myself, I can only hope that the novel will serve as an object lesson, and one to which I may turn in hope and despair.The novel is well written, its characters and situations drawn in a very realistic and often sympathetic way.Like the ill-fated "ignobly decent" novel of Mr. Biffen's, "Mr. Bailey, Grocer," "New Grub Street" may seem less like a novel, and more like a series of rambling biographical sketches, but they are indelible and lasting sketches of literary lives as they were in the original Grub Street, still yet in Gissing's time, and as they continue to-day.Very highly recommended. ... Read more |
27. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays by Annie Roe Carr | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1941)
Asin: B000U2HVIW Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
28. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays by Annie Roe CArr | |
Hardcover:
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(1916)
Asin: B0012NY7Q2 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
29. Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch by Annie Roe Carr | |
Perfect Paperback:
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(2006)
Asin: B000LECK9E Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
30. Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays by Annie Roe Carr | |
Perfect Paperback:
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(2006)
Asin: B000LEEBW8 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
31. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp by Annie Roe Carr | |
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(2006)
Asin: B000LEI6C4 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
32. Nan Sherwood At Palm Beach by nie RAnoe (Stratemeyer Syndicate; Duffield, John W.) Carr Annie Roe | |
Hardcover:
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(1921)
Asin: B000NPF1W4 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
33. Pine Camp or The Old Lumberman's Secret (Nan Sherwood) | |
Hardcover:
Pages
(1916)
Asin: B000F3FWGO Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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