Writing Manuals for the Masses The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard /

Writing Manuals for the Masses The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard /

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This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often di...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Masschelein, Anneleen (Editor), de Geest, Dirk (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Edition:1st ed. 2021.
Series:New Directions in Book History,
Subjects:
Books > History.
Literature, Modern > 19th century.
Creative writing.
Literature and technology.
Mass media and literature.
Technology > Sociological aspects.
History of the Book.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Creative Writing.
Literature and Technology.
Science, Technology and Society.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein
  • 2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey
  • 3. "You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art": The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell
  • 4. "Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman": Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author's Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Paul Vlitos
  • 5. 'Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?': Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach
  • 6. "Stand out from the Crowd!": Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas
  • 7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek
  • 8. The "Ready-Made-Writer" in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby
  • 9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary
  • 10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes
  • 11. 'Writing by Prescription': Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein
  • 12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits
  • 13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens
  • 14. "Mostrar, no decir": The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache
  • 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between 'Work' and 'The Work' in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach
  • 16. "If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.  .

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