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001 2015019256
003 DLC
005 20150710085418.0
008 150629s2015 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2015019256
020 $a9781137478498 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPS228.A88$bL58 2015
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084 $aLIT000000$aLIT004020$aLIT004070$aLIT004120$2bisacsh
245 00 $aLiterary careers in the modern era /$cedited by Guy Davidson, Nicola Evans.
263 $a1509
264 1 $aHoundmills, Basingtoke, Hampshire ;$aNew York :$bPalgrave Macmillan,$c2015.
300 $apages cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Literary Careers in the Modern Era is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. It engages questions such as: what counts as a successful career for a literary author and how do norms of success change over time? And given the explosion of self-publishing in the digital era, who now counts as an 'author'? Although literary criticism often focuses on an individual author's career, what is meant by this term is rarely examined. This collection of essays, which brings together scholarship on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, seeks to address this gap. It investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and the relationship between the career, the personal life of an author and public celebrity. The essays demonstrate that the modern literary career is complex phenomenon, subject to multiple social and psychological pressures"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine 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.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y21st century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aAuthorship$xHistory$y21st century.
650 0 $aLiterature publishing$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aLiterature publishing$xHistory$y21st century.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Australian & Oceanian.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aDavidson, Guy.
700 1 $aEvans, Nicola.