Marketing the author : authorial personae, narrative selves and self-fashioning, 1880-1930 / edited by Marysa Demoor.
Contributor(s): Demoor, Marysa.
Publisher: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004Description: 256 p. : ill. ; 22cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1403933294; 9781403933294.Subject(s): English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
| Authors in literature | Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Authors and readers -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism | Authorship -- Marketing -- History -- 20th century | Authorship -- Marketing -- History -- 19th century | American literature -- History and criticism | Authors and readers -- United States | Point of view (Literature) | Literature: history & criticism | Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 | Literary theory | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 | Cultural studies | Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers | Social & cultural history | English | Literature | Emergent ReadersDDC classification: 820.90091 DEM Summary: This title looks at the careers and the writings of a selection of authors writing in the period 1880-1930 who impersonated identities which they had created for themselves. It argues that due to socio-economic changes at the time, authors had to remain in control of their public image to survive.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Marketing the Author looks at the careers and the writings of a selection of authors writing in the period 1880-1930 (from the fairly unknown Emilia Dilke and Rosamund Watson to literary celebrities like Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf) who all impersonated identities which they had created for themselves. It argues that as a result of the socio-economic changes at the time authors had to remain in control of their public image in order to survive.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This title looks at the careers and the writings of a selection of authors writing in the period 1880-1930 who impersonated identities which they had created for themselves. It argues that due to socio-economic changes at the time, authors had to remain in control of their public image to survive.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. ix)
- Notes on the Contributors (p. x)
- Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
- Introduction (p. 1)
- 1 Emilia Dilke: Self-Fashioning and the Nineteenth Century (p. 19)
- 2 The Art of Self-Creation: Henry James in the New York Edition Prefaces (p. 40)
- 3 'Who is "We"?' The 'Daily Paper' Projects and the Journalism Manifestos of W.T. Stead (p. 54)
- 4 A Novelist of Character: Becoming Lucas Malet (p. 73)
- 5 Irony, Ethics and Self-Fashioning in George Moore's Confessions of a Young Man (p. 96)
- 6 Interstitial Identities: Vernon Lee and the Spaces In-Between (p. 114)
- 7 A Woman Poet Angling for Notice: Rosamund Marriott Watson (p. 134)
- 8 Arnold Bennett's Other Selves (p. 156)
- 9 Perpetuating Joyce (p. 184)
- 10 Making Room for the Woman of Genius: Virginia Woolf, Elizabeth Robins and 'Modernism's Other' as Mother (p. 207)
- Index (p. 234)