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Author:   Cynthia Cravens ,  Megan A. Anderson ,  Julie M. Barst ,  Sarah Briest
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781793620606

ISBN 10:   1793620601
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   15 January 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Geniuses, Addicts, and Scribbling Women: Portraits of the Writer in Popular Culture Cynthia Cravens Chapter One: Finding Their Way: Coming of Age as a Writer in John Irving's The World According to Garp and A Widow for One Year Megan A. Anderson Chapter Two: Traveling with Writers: Gender, Genre, and Creativity in Bleaker House and Less Julie Barst Chapter Three: The Narrating Serpent: Two Distinct Representations of Authorship in Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller Sarah Briest Chapter Four: Public Personas of Dangerous Men: Killing Constructed Identities with Suicide by Sequel Christopher Burlingame Chapter Five: Follow the Lead: The Evolving Story of Lois Lane and Her Writing Sandra Eckard Chapter Six: Scribbling Pleasure: Undertaking the Sentence of Desire Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding Chapter Seven: Jane-as-Fanny: Patricia Rozema's Woman Writer in Mansfield Park Melanie D. Holm Chapter Eight: From Silly Lady Novelists to Celebrity Male Modernists: Gender and the Representation of Authorship in Fiction 1850-1949 Elizabeth King Chapter Nine: Re-gendering Genre: Self-Conscious Supernaturalism in Muriel Spark's The Comforters Alexandra Oxner Chapter Ten: The Evolution of Daredevil's Karen Page: From Damsel-in-Distress to Writer-Hero Gian Pagnucci

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A fascinating study of a subject writers have fixated on since first a pen was lifted to create narrative: their own iconic profession. From the Victorian starving artist in the garret to genre-bending contemporary memoirists, from transgressive authors to the storyteller as superhero, this volume examines, from every angle, the representation of the writer in popular and literary culture. In this crooked mirror held up to the writer's own craft we learn much about the compulsion to create narrative, and what it means to live and work as a dealer in words.--Dr. Sarah Lonsdale, City, University of London

A fascinating study of a subject writers have fixated on since first a pen was lifted to create narrative: their own iconic profession. From the Victorian starving artist in the garret to genre-bending contemporary memoirists, from transgressive authors to the storyteller as superhero, this volume examines, from every angle, the representation of the writer in popular and literary culture. In this crooked mirror held up to the writer's own craft we learn much about the compulsion to create narrative, and what it means to live and work as a dealer in words.

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Cynthia Cravens is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

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