Literary careers in the modern era. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Guy Davidson and Nicola Evans.
• Other Names: Davidson, Guy; Evans, Nicola
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (250 pages)
• Subjects: 820.23; European/English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; 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; General; American/General; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137478511; 1137478519
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