Elizabeth King

The Novelist in the Novel (eBook, PDF)

Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship, 1850-1949

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature, arguing that our notions of literary genius are implicitly shaped by and explicitly questioned in novels about novelists, a genre that has been critically underexamined.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000965452
• Artikelnr.: 68969767

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth King guest lectures and tutors at the University of New South Wales, where she has taught for the last five years. Her work has appeared in Geniuses, Addicts and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture (2023), and she is the co- editor of Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority and Fictionality (2023) with Alison Gibbons. She currently works as an editor at Simon & Schuster Australia.

Inhaltsangabe

Novels about Novelists: An Undetected Epidemic?
The Author-Story in Criticism
Reading Closely, from a Distance
A Theory of the Author-Story
The Rise of Novels about Novelists
PART I: Writing to Survive (1850-1899)
1. Narratives of Failure: The Artist and His Antagonists in
Victorian-Author Stories
Poverty as Purity in Carlyle's "The Hero as Man of Letters"
From Pot-Boiler to Polemic: Herman Melville's Pierre
Pardoning the "unpardonable sin" in George Gissing's New Grub Street
Failing to Succeed and Succeeding in Failure: Mixed Metaphors in Henry
James's Author-Stories
Conclusions
2. Woman or Writer? Silly Lady Novelists and New Woman Writers
Silly Lady Novelists and the New Woman Writer
An Impasse: Olympia's Journal
The Story of a Modern Woman by "A Spinster of Independent Means"
George Paston: A Writer of Books
Red Pottage: Mary Cholmondeley's "Child of the Brain"
Conclusions
PART II: After the Great Divide (1900-1950)
3. The Poet in the Prose: Childhood and Romanticism in the Modernist
Künstlerroman
The Autobiographical Künstlerroman
A Romantic Connection: The Child and the Poet
Tonio Kröger: Thomas Mann's "Favorite Literary Child"
James Joyce's Portrait of the Poet as a Prose Writer
Thomas Wolfe's Long Look Homeward
Conclusions
4. "Buried at the Cross-Roads": The Disappearing Acts of Women Writers
Masculinity, Modernity, Celebrity
Where are all the Women Writers?
"Probably they all wrote, except the women": Dorothy Richardson's
Pilgrimage
Edith Wharton's Modernist and His Muse
"The buried woman...the great man": Dawn Powell's Turn, Magic Wheel
Conclusions
CODA: The Author-Story after 1950
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Index