"The Brain-Sucker: Or, the Distress of Authorship”: A Late Eighteenth-Century Satire of Grub Street

Originally printed in the first issue of The British Mercury in 1787, “The Brain-Sucker: Or, the Distress of Authorship” is a piece of satirical short fiction that has so far received only little attention in discussions of eighteenth-century print culture and practices of authorship. Probably writt...

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Main Authors: Ingo Berensmeyer, Gero Guttzeit, Alise Jameson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ghent University 2015-06-01
Series:Authorship
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Online Access:https://www.authorship.ugent.be/article/view/1103