Authorship in Context

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Introduction: Authorship and its Contexts

   1. Introduction: Authorship and its Contexts

      • Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Polina Mackay

      Pages 1-12

3. Nineteenth-Century Literary Market-Place

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. The Author, the Editor, and the Fissured Text: Scott, Maturin and Hogg

      • Victor Sage

      Pages 15-32

   3. ‘George Eliot’, the Literary Market-Place and Sympathy

      • Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi

      Pages 33-55

   4. Liberal Editing in the Fortnightly Review and the Nineteenth Century

      • Helen Small

      Pages 56-71

4. Twentieth-Century Mythologies of Authorship

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. F. R. Leavis: The Writer, Language, History

      • Michael Bell

      Pages 75-90

   3. Mind that Crowd: Flann O’Brien’s Authors

      • Joseph Brooker

      Pages 91-110

   4. Authorship in the Writings and Films of William S. Burroughs

      • Polina Mackay

      Pages 111-128

5. Postmodern Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129

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   2. Postmodernism, Criticism and the graphic novel

      • David Punter

      Pages 131-144

   3. Authorial Identity in the Era of Electronic Technologies

      • Tatiani G. Rapatzikou

      Pages 145-162

   4. Towards a Politics of the Small Things: Arundhati Roy and the Decentralization of Authorship

      • Maria-Sabina Alexandru

      Pages 163-181

6. Authorship and Criticism

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. The Decline of the Critic

      • Terry Eagleton

      Pages 185-193

7. Back Matter

   Pages 194-231

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Theories of authorship and material culture provide the framework for this study. It maps Anglo-American authorship as it shifts from a theoretical to a more material approach to its study in contexts recognized as key to its development: the nineteenth-century literary market-place, twentieth-century experimentalism and postmodern culture.

• Autorschaft
• George Eliot
• postmodernism

• University of East Anglia, UK

  Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi

MARIA-SABINA ALEXANDRU Lecturer in Contemporary British and American Studies, University of Bucharest, Romania MICHAEL BELL Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies, University of Warwick, UK JOSEPH BROOKER Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK TERRY EAGLETON Professor of Cultural Theory, Department of English and American Studies, University of Manchester, UK DAVID PUNTER Professor of English, University of Bristol, UK TATIANA RAPATZIKOU Lecturer, Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece VICTOR SAGE Professor of English, School of Literature and Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK HELEN SMALL Fellow and University Lecturer in English Literature, Pembroke College, Oxford, UK

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