Literary Careers in the Modern Era

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: Brilliant Careers?....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
An Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton’s Literary Authority in His Autobiography....Pages 19-38
From the Audience to the Stage: Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer’s Advertisements for Myself ....Pages 39-56
The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal....Pages 57-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Celebrity and Career of Gertrude Stein....Pages 77-95
Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin’s Career....Pages 96-112
Parallel: Parallax—The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand....Pages 113-128
Christos Tsiolkas, ‘Career’, and Anti-Capitalist Critique....Pages 129-143
Front Matter....Pages 145-145
Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally’s Literary Career....Pages 147-166
Inside the Writer’s Room, the Artist’s Studio and Flaubert’s Parrot ....Pages 167-183
She Needs a Website of Her Own: The ‘Indie’ Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing....Pages 184-195
Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era....Pages 196-214
Back Matter....Pages 215-240