Literary Careers in the Modern Era

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Introduction: Brilliant Careers?

   1. Introduction: Brilliant Careers?

      • Guy Davidson, Nicola Evans

      Pages 1-16

3. Career/Success

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. An Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton’s Literary Authority in His Autobiography

      • Chene Heady

      Pages 19-38

   3. From the Audience to the Stage: Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer’s Advertisements for Myself

      • John O’Brien

      Pages 39-56

   4. The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal

      • Hywel Dix

      Pages 57-73

4. Queer Careers

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Celebrity and Career of Gertrude Stein

      • Jeff Solomon

      Pages 77-95

   3. Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin’s Career

      • Guy Davidson

      Pages 96-112

   4. Parallel: Parallax—The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand

      • Elizabeth McMahon

      Pages 113-128

   5. Christos Tsiolkas, ‘Career’, and Anti-Capitalist Critique

      • Leigh Dale

      Pages 129-143

5. New Contexts: Rethinking How Literary Careers are Made

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145

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   2. Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally’s Literary Career

      • Paul Sharrad

      Pages 147-166

   3. Inside the Writer’s Room, the Artist’s Studio and Flaubert’s Parrot

      • Nicola Evans

      Pages 167-183

   4. She Needs a Website of Her Own: The ‘Indie’ Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing

      • Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Rumsha Shahzad

      Pages 184-195

   5. Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era

      • Laura Dietz

      Pages 196-214

6. Back Matter

   Pages 215-240

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This is the first study of the shape and diversity of the literary career in the 20th and 21st centuries. Bringing together essays on a wide range of authors from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, the book investigates how literary careers are made and unmade, and how norms of authorship are shifting in the digital era.

• Literary career
• literary celebrity
• American literature
• Australian literature
• English literature
• publishing industry
• authorship
• self-publishing
• queer authorship
• America
• American Literature
• Amerikanische Literatur
• Autorschaft
• Canada
• critique
• fiction
• USA

• School of Arts, English and Media, University of Wollongong, Australia

  Guy Davidson, Nicola Evans

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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