Literary Careers in the Modern Era

by Guy Davidson (Editor), Nicola Evans (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137478498
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	09/30/2015
Edition description:	1st ed. 2015
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Leigh Dale, University of Wollongong, Australia Laura Dietz, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Guy Davidson, University of Wollongong, Australia Nicola Evans, University of Wollongong, Australia Chene Heady, Longwood University, USA Elizabeth McMahon, University of New South Wales, Australia John O'Brien, independent scholar, Germany Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Northwestern University, Qatar. Rumsha Shahzad, Georgetown University SFS, Qatar. Paul Sharrad, University of Wollongong, Australia Jeff Solomon, University of Southern California, USA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
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
Bibliography
Index