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OverviewJust as mass-market magazines and cheap books have played important roles in the creation of an American identity, those skilled craftsmen (and women) whose careers are the subjects of Ronald Weber’s narrative profoundly influenced the outlook and strategies of the high-culture writers who are generally the focus of literary studies. Hired Pens, a history of the writing profession in the United States, recognizes the place of independent writers who wrote for their livelihood from the 1830s and 1840s, with the first appearance of a broad-based print culture, to the 1960s. Many realist authors began on this American Grub Street. Jack London turned out hackwork for any paying market he could find, while Scott Fitzgerald’s stories in slick magazines in the 1920s and early ’30s established his name as a writer. From Edgar Allen Poe’s earliest forays into writing for pay to Sylvia Plath’s attempts to produce fiction for mass-circulation journals, Hired Pens documents without agenda the evolution of professional writing in all its permutations—travel accounts, sport, popular biography and history, genre and series fiction—and the culture it fed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ronald WeberPublisher: Ohio University Press Imprint: Ohio University Press Edition: 1 Dimensions: Width: 22.90cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 15.20cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780821412053ISBN 10: 0821412051 Pages: 300 Publication Date: 31 December 1997 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsPrevious authors have covered the ground he walks in this new book, but no one has covered it better...Weber is a masterful writer, but he also relies heavily on the autobiographical writings of the subjects he has chosen; that reliance is not mispla Weber is a meticulous scholar. He tells the story of professional writing in America with hundreds of details. --The Columbus Dispatch Those interested in the crazy business of writing will find Hired Pens an illuminating addition to their library. --The New York Times Book Review Author InformationRonald Weber is Professor of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame and the author of many books, both fiction and nonfiction. He is the editor of The Reporter as Artist: A Look at the New Journalism Controversy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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