Literature at Nurse, Hardcover by Moore, George, Brand New, Free shipping in ...
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Literature at Nurse, Hardcover by Moore, George, Brand New, Free shipping in .... The significance of Moore's tract gives it a sustained cultural relevance. Professor Coustillas presents it here with the full correspondence it aroused on first publication. Literature at Nurse, Hardcover by Moore, George, ISBN 191145420X, ISBN-13 9781911454205, Brand New, Free shipping in the US George Moore's fierce polemic against the literary and social censorship of the Victorian select circulating libraries was a landmark in the history of English novel publishing. Moore wrote this broadside, and Henry Vizetelly published it, in 1885 – both of them incensed at the arbitrary moral restrictions placed on the circulation of literature by Mudie's select circulating library and by . Smiths, which had both refused to stock Moore's novels, A Modern Lover and A Mummer's Wife. The significance of Moore's tract gives it a sustained cultural relevance. Professor Coustillas presents it here with the full correspondence it aroused on first publication. This is critically assessed, and its ready availability again will prove it a valuable document for Victorian studies.
