Authors at work
Subtitle: the creative environment
By: edited by Ceri Sullivan and Graeme Harper.
Contributors: Sullivan, Ceri, 1963-; Harper, Graeme.
Series: Essays and studies 2009 -- v. 62; Essays and studies (London, England : 1950) -- v. 62.
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781843841951
Subjects: Authorship -- Psychological aspects; English language -- Rhetoric; Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.); English literature -- History and criticism
Description: How to writers work? The differing habits of seven great authors are examined in this collection.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Ceri Sullivan; title: Gubbins at a desk: Auden's cave / Stan Smith; title: Literary limelight: the laureateship / interview: Andrew Motion; title: A bed of one's own: Margaret Oliphant / Elisabeth Jay; title: Literary archives: the British Library / interview: Jamie Andrews; title: Glue and daydreams: Trollope at work / N. John Hall; title: Literary netscapes: web poetry and blogging / interview: Robert Sheppard; title: Growing up and zoning out: Charlotte and Emily Brontë / Stevie Davies; title: Literary festivals: Hay-on-Wye / interview: Peter Florence; title: Composing Paradise lost: blindness and the feminine / Peter C. Herman; title: Literary heritage: Stratford and the Globe / conversation: Farah Karim-Cooper and Kate Rumbold; title: Tavern and library: working with Ben Jonson / Michelle O'Callaghan and Adam Smyth; title: Postscript / Graeme Harper.