 A commercial atmosphere floats around works of this class, redolent of the manufactory and the shop. The public want novels, and novels must be made — so many yards of printed stuff, sensation-pattern, to be ready by the beginning of the season.  The Quarterly Review - Side 4831863Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Laurence Talairach-Vielmas - 2007 - 212 sider
...establishment to fear that literature was becoming, as the contemporary critic Henry Mansel put it, 'so many yards of printed stuff, sensation-pattern to be ready by the beginning of the season' seeking to match 'the fashions of the current season'.10 More disquieting still was the fear that sensation... | |
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