Literary Advice, British Fiction 1880-1914 and the Birth of the Creative Writing Industry
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-26620-9 (ISBN)
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A groundbreaking exploration of the development of the literary advice industry of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book examines popular author guides of the period, offering insight into the origins of writing advice, and reconstructing debates about the relationship between the author and their public, literary value and the teaching (and teachability) of creative writing.
Making clear connections with the advice offered to aspiring writers today, Paul Vlitos historicizes the fields of creative writing and literary criticism, tracing to their origins some of the enduring platitudes of pedagogy whilst studying the matrix of attitudes and circumstances out of which they emerged. Works explored include Percy Russell’s The Literary Manual; or, A Complete Guide to Authorship (1886) and The Author’s Manual (1890), Leopold Wagner’s How to Publish a Book (1898), George Bainton’s The Art of Authorship (1890), Walter Besant’s The Pen and the Book (1899), E.H. Lacon Watson’s Hints to Young Authors (1902) and Arnold Bennett’s How to Become an Author (1903),
In addition, Vlitos places the period’s writing advice in dialogue with fictional Victorian and Edwardian fictional depictions of the literary life, demonstrating how authors each presented their own versions of what it might mean to be a writer in a changing economic and cultural landscape. Featuring such fiction including the short stories of Henry James, H. Rider Haggard’s Mr Meeson’s Will (1888), George Gissing’s New Grub Street (1891), Marie Corelli’s The Sorrows of Satan (1895), Sarah Grand’s The Beth Book (1897), George Paston’s A Writer of Books (1899), Mary Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage (1899) and Arnold Bennett’s A Great Man (1904), this book offers striking new readings of texts both canonical and neglected, bestselling and consciously high-brow, to shed light on how the idea of an author, in its modern sense, is articulated.
Paul Vlitos is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Greenwich, UK, where he is Academic Portfolio Lead for Creative Writing and for English Literature. As well as his academic writing and the novels he has published under his own name, Paul also writes fiction (with Collette Lyons) as Ellery Lloyd. Their first novel, People Like Her (2021), was a Richard and Judy Summer Pick and a Book of the Month Club pick. Their second novel, The Club (2022), was a Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times Bestseller. Their third novel, The Final Act of Juliette Willoughby (2024) was a Sunday Times Thriller of the Year. He is also the author of Eating and Identity in Postcolonial Fiction: Consuming Passions, Unpalatable Truths (2018).
Introduction
Chapter One: ‘You’ll Never Guess what I am Writing Just Now’: Author’s Guides and the Literary Advice Industry 1880-1914
Chapter Two: Literary Advice in British Fiction 1880-1914
Chapter Three: Literary Advice, Gender and the Female-Authored Novel of Literary Life 1880-1914
Chapter Four: Reading like a Writer: Readers, Writers, Literary Advice and Class 1880-1914
Conclusion: The Afterlives of Late Victorian and Edwardian Literary Advice
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.2.2026 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-26620-5 / 1350266205 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-26620-9 / 9781350266209 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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