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Title:

Literary careers in the modern era / edited by Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

ix, 240 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
English literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Authorship--History--20th century.
Authorship--History--21st century.
Literature publishing--History--20th century.
Literature publishing--History--21st century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
American literature.
Authorship.
English literature.
Literature publishing.
Schriftsteller.
Beruf.
Literaturproduktion.
Englisches Sprachgebiet.
1900 - 2099
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Other Authors:

Davidson, Guy. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2011057017
Evans, Nicola. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99036673

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-230) and index.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Brilliant Careers? / Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans -- PART I: CAREER/SUCCESS. 2. An Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton's Literary Authority in his Autobiography / Chene Heady ; 3. From the Audience to the Stage: Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer's Advertisements For Myself / John O'Brien ; 4. The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal / Hywel Dix -- PART II: QUEER CAREERS. 5. Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Literary Celebrity and Literary Career of Gertrude Stein / Jeff Solomon ; 6. Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin's Career / Guy Davidson 7. Parallel:Parallax -- The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand / Elizabeth McMahon ; 8. Christos Tsolkias, 'Career, ' and Anti-Capitalist Critique / Leigh Dale -- PART III: CHANGING CONTEXTS: RETHINKING HOW LITERARY CAREERS ARE MADE 9. Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally's Literary Career / Paul Sharrad ; 10. Inside the Writer's Room, the Artist's Studio and Flaubert's Parrot / Nicola Evans ; 11. She needs a Website of her Own: The 'Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing / Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar and Rumsha Shahzad ; 12. Who are you Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era / Laura Dietz.

Summary:

"Literary Careers in the Modern Era is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. It engages questions such as: what counts as a successful career for a literary author and how do norms of success change over time? And given the explosion of self-publishing in the digital era, who now counts as an 'author'? Although literary criticism often focuses on an individual author's career, what is meant by this term is rarely examined. This collection of essays, which brings together scholarship on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, seeks to address this gap. It investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and the relationship between the career, the personal life of an author and public celebrity. The essays demonstrate that the modern literary career is complex phenomenon, subject to multiple social and psychological pressures"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1137478497
9781137478498

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908913894

LCCN:

2015019256

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)