Under the Cover : : The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel / / Clayton Childress.
Under the Cover follows the life trajectory of a single work of fiction from its initial inspiration to its reception by reviewers and readers. The subject is Jarrettsville, a historical novel by Cornelia Nixon, which was published in 2009 and based on an actual murder committed by an ancestor of Ni...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) :; 32 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Introduction: The estrangement of Creation, Production, and reception
- PART I. THE FIELD OF CREATION
- 2 The Structure of Creativity
- 3. Authorial Careers: or, how $6,000 Becomes a Middle- Class income
- PART II. From Creation to ProduCtion
- 4. Literary agents and double duties
- PART III. The Field of Production
- 5. Decision Making, Taste, and financial Commitment to Culture: or, Why Counterpoint Press accepted Jarrettsville after rejecting it
- 6. Industry Structure and the Position and disposition of Publishers: or, how Some of the end of Jarrettsville Quite literally Became the Beginning
- 7. Storytelling and Mythmaking
- PART IV. From Production to reception
- 8. Retailers and reviewers: or, how Being Placed on the front Table Could have Tanked Jarrettsville
- PART V. The Field of Reception
- 9. Reading life into novels
- 10. Reading novels into life
- PART VI. Connecting the Circuit
- 11. Conclusion: reconnecting Creation, Production, and reception
- Methodological appendix
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index