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Read & copy
“Literature nowadays is a trade.”
Meaning & context
Jasper Milvain bluntly treats literary production as a market profession, setting his commercial adaptability against Reardon’s older ideal of the artist.
Source details
New Grub Street, Part I, Chapter I, Project Gutenberg #1709. Jasper Milvain says “Literature nowadays is a trade” while explaining his deliberately commercial strategy for succeeding in the literary marketplace. It remains fictional character dialogue inside Gissing’s critique of publishing economics rather than Gissing’s unqualified personal creed or a current market statistic.