Writing Manuals for the Masses : The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard / / edited by Anneleen Masschelein, Dirk de Geest.

• Superior document: New Directions in Book History,
• HerausgeberIn: Masschelein, Anneleen.; de Geest, Dirk.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing :, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed. 2021.
• Language: English
• Series: New Directions in Book History,
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XXII, 412 p. 19 illus., 1 illus. in color.)

This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often di...

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein
• 2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey
• 3. “You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art”: The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell
• 4. “Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman”: Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, Paul Vlitos
• 5. ‘Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?’: Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach
• 6. “Stand out from the Crowd!”: Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas
• 7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek
• 8. The “Ready-Made-Writer” in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby
• 9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary
• 10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes
• 11. ‘Writing by Prescription’: Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein
• 12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits
• 13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens
• 14. “Mostrar, no decir”: The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache
• 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach
• 16. “If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.  .