Samuel Beckett in the literary marketplace
By: Stephen John Dilks ; with a foreword by S. E. Gontarski
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Irish studies
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Syracuse, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780815632542
Subjects: Authorship; Authors and publishers; Marketing; Publishers and publishing; Criticism and interpretation; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Portraits of Beckett as a professional writer; title: "Fight": Beckett's social agency, 1928-1934; title: Beckett's professional agency: the Reavey years, 1932-1937; title: Deploying positive annihilation: displacing Joyce, 1938-1945; title: A room of his own, 1945-1950; title: Relaxing into fame: contracts and agreements, 1950-1956; title: Selling Beckett as an unknown celebrity, 1956-1969.