Author Fictions : : Narrative Representations of Literary Authorship since 1800 / / Ingo Berensmeyer.

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• VerfasserIn: Berensmeyer, Ingo,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 504 p.)

Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical and historical perspective. Narra...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction: How Literature Makes Authors
• Part I Literary Authorship in History and Theory
• 1 Towards a Literary History of Literary Authorship
• 2 Authors, Works, Audiences: Conceptual Foundations
• Part II Author-Making and Social Form in the Nineteenth Century
• 3 Lost Illusions: Balzac’s Brutal Materialism
• 4 Compromise Formation in the English Literary Bildungsroman
• 5 The Novel of Allopoetic Deformation: Herman Melville’s Pierre (1852)
• 6 “Sign it like a queen”: Writing Female Authors in the Victorian Novel
• 7 Starving in the Reading Room: Precarious Economies of Authorship in Late Victorian Fiction
• 8 Curious Double Lives: Puzzles of Authorship in James, Kipling, and Beerbohm
• Part III Modernist Author Fictions
• 9 The Ambivalence of Promise in Arthur Machen, E. M. Forster, and Henry Green
• 10 “Do you seriously believe in literature?” Comic Turns from Aldous Huxley to Kingsley Amis
• 11 “Writing’s a mug’s game”: Novels of Resentment and Regeneration in the 1930s and 1940s
• 12 Working Women: Figurations of Female Authorship in Postwar Britain
• Part IV From Postmodernist Metafiction to Contemporary Autofiction
• 13 The Validity of Authorship: Postwar British Metafiction from Muriel Spark to William Golding
• 14 “The unreckoned consequences of art”: Authorial Realism in Munro, Carver, Roth, and Moore
• 15 Authorship Horror: Stephen King’s Misery (1987)
• 16 The Tremor of Genre: Making and Unmaking Writers in Suspense Fiction
• 17 Economies of Authorship in Contemporary (Auto‐)Fiction: Between Expressivism and Institutionalism
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: An Incomplete List of Authorship Narratives, 1800 –2022
• Appendix 2: Quantitative Survey, 1800– 2022
• List of Illustrations and Tables
• Glossary
• Acknowledgements
• References
• Index