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.
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1 Introduction: Brilliant Careers? |
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2 An Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton's Literary Authority in his Autobiography |
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3 From the Audience to the Stage: Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer's Advertisements for Myself |
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4 The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal |
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5 Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Celebrity and Career of Gertrude Stein |
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6 Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin's Career |
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7 Parallel: Parallax---The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand |
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8 Christos Tsiolkas, `Career', and Anti-Capitalist Critique |
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Part III New Contexts: Rethinking How Literary Careers are Made |
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9 Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally's Literary Career |
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10 Inside the Writer's Room, the Artist's Studio and Flaubert's Parrot |
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11 She Needs a Website of Her Own: The `Indie' Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing |
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12 Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era |
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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
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