| Description |
xiv, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Marysa Demoor -- Emilia Dilke: self-fashioning and the nineteenth century / Elizabeth Mansfield -- The art of self-creation: Henry James in the New York edition prefaces / John H. Pearson -- 'Who is "we"?' The 'daily paper' projects and the journalism manifestos of W.T. Stead / Laurel Brake -- A novelist of character: becoming Lucas Malet / Talia Shaffer -- Irony, ethics and self-fashioning in George Moore's Confessions of a young man / Annette Federico -- Interstitial identities: Vernon Lee and the spaces in-between / Hilary Fraser -- A woman poet angling for notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson / Linda K. Hughes -- Arnold Bennett's other selves / Robert Squillace -- Perpetuating Joyce / Edward Bishop -- Making room for the woman of genius: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Robins and 'modernism's other' as mother / Molly Hite. |
| Summary |
"Marketing the Author looks at the careers and writings of a selection of writers - from celebrated Modernists and Victorians such as James Joyce, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, to relatively obscure authors such as Emilia Dillke, 'Lucas Malet' and W. T. Stead - writing at the turn of the twentieth century." |
|
"What is it that ties together such a heterogeneous group of writers? They all took advantage of the exciting contemporary developments in the literary market-place in order to design a writerly self which, they believed, would possibly immortalise their name and their work and certainly promote the sale of their books - with varying degrees of success. The essays featured in this volume analyse the methods adopted by authors to self-mythologise and their reasons for doing so. |
|
They also try to answer the question first formulated by Michel Foucault when he wondered 'at what moment studies of authenticity and attribution began, in what kind of valorization the author was involved, at what point we began to recount the lives of authors rather than of heroes'."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
Authors in literature.
|
|
Authors and readers -- English-speaking countries.
|
|
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
Authorship -- Marketing -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Authorship -- Marketing -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
American literature -- History and criticism.
|
|
Point of view (Literature)
|
|
Persona (Literature)
|
|
Self in literature.
|
| Added Author |
Demoor, Marysa.
|
| ISBN |
1403933294 |
|
9781403933294 |
|
