Literary Careers in the Modern Era [electronic resource] /
Davidson, Guy.editor.
Evans, Nicola.editor.
This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- Notes on the Contributors 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.
This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
America—Literatures.
Fiction.
Literature—History and criticism.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
North American Literature.
Fiction.
Literary History.