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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Literary marketplace"”.
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Publishing short stories : British modernist fiction and the literary marketplace
The short story was the most profitable literary form for most fiction-writers of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries because it was quick to write, relative to novels, marketable to a wide variety of periodicals, and able to be re-sold, in groups, for book collections. While the …
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Selling out: The American literary marketplace and the Modernist novel
… of book history to re-examine the role of the literary market in the construction of modernist authorship in American culture. I examine how four American writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner attempted to create their literary reputations through their …
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Divided Bodies: Nation Formation and the Literary Marketplace in Salman Rushdie's Shame and Bapsi Sidhwa's Cracking India
… 1947 Partition of India. Rushdie and Sidhwa’s literary renderings of Partition and Pakistani/Indian politics utilize disability as a method to demonstrate the severing of a nation and Indian and Pakistani identities. Additionally, Rushdie and Sidhwa reveal the interconnected nature of gender, …
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Selling Out: The American Literary Market Place and the Modernist Novel
"""Selling Out: The American Literary Marketplace and the Modernist Novel"" re­examines the ""modernist author"" we think we know by rereading how four American authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Kay Boyle, and William Faulkner deliberately tried to create a literary reputation …
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Howells' Dialogic Realism
… and commercially within the period's changing literary marketplace.
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“Neither in Nor Out of Blackwood's": The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe’s Prose Address
… (1846) and lesser-known articles such as "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq." (1844) and "Loss of Breath" (1832/5). Chapter One describes Poe's involvement in the transatlantic literary marketplace prior to the enforcement of literary copyright. Chapters Two and Three treat his development …
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Spain in translation: a study of Spanish fiction in English translation 2000-2015
… Spanish fiction is received in the UK and Irish literary marketplace, drawing on publishers’ paratexts and critical reviews. Analysing the most active authors between 2000-2015 from Spain in English translation I will triangulate the data shown from these diverse sources with stylistic analysis …
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Aesthetics, Politics, and the Urban Space in Postcolonial British Literature
… each account for their own places in the global literary marketplace, and acknowledge their own complicity and reliance on forms of capital. Ultimately, what this thesis offers is a study of how aesthetics and narrative sit in dynamic tension with the state, and with forms of inclusion and …
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When the "Unprotected" Body Speaks: The Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Black Females in the Caribbean and the United States
… female author's inclusion in the burgeoning literary marketplace of the nineteenth century, and second, to reinstate her in the scholarship of sentimental writings. I will focus on two representative texts from the English-speaking Caribbean: Mary Prince's The History of Mary Prince (1831), …
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Handel As Arranger And Producer: Listening To Pasticci In Eighteenth-Century London
… the notion of authorship in the context of the literary marketplace, copyright laws, and music appropriation in early eighteenth-century London; and the experience of listening to what a composer already listened to by borrowing music from other authors. Thus, I position the pasticcio in the …
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Domestic narratives in the transatlantic community: Elizabeth Gaskell and Louisa May Alcott
… the processes of reciprocal, transatlantic literary exchange between Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century. While these specific transnational relations have received much critical attention in recent years, I extend current theoretical frameworks by focusing on how women‘s …
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The Making of the Shrew: Comedy, Adaptation, and the Construction of Shakespeare's Cultural Authority on the Restoration and Eighteenth -Century Stage
… polite society of the eighteenth century and the literary elite, which it contrasts with writers who were associated with the marketplace. Sir Richard Steele and David Garrick use Shakespeare's play to call for a companionate marriage which seems to offer egalitarian gender relations, but only …
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“A (Re)turn to the Archive: Reading the Lives and Works of Yvonne Vera and Dambudzo Marechera”
… and reception of narrated lives in the global literary marketplace tends to centre a form of liberal subjectivity premised on the presumed virtues of speech and presence, supporting a series of claims about the therapeutic value of representation in the event of Africa’s historical traumas. I …
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Maisons de presse, Maisons de passe: Prostitution in the Parisian Literary Market, 1830 - 1923
… removed from public circulation in society. Literary critics such as Charles Bernheimer have adeptly shown that a desire for narrative control over the prostitute reveals a prevailing anxiety surrounding gender—and more specifically, female sexuality—in nineteenth-century France. My work …
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American Women Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism
… Writers, Visual Vocabularies, and the Lives of Literary Regionalism<italic> reads American literary regionalism through its visual vocabularies--such as sketches, photographs and portraits. Though critics often deemed this genre inferior or unfinished, using visual vocabularies of the "sketch" …
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Maritime Sensibility: Sentimentalism, Racial Capitalism, and a Critique of the American Maritime Genre
This dissertation looks to the early American literary marketplace and argues that the American maritime genre, assumed to have begun with James Fenimore Cooper’s novel "The Pilot" in 1824, was not an uncontested genre prior to Cooper’s popularization of maritime nationalism. Instead, this …
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Coming to Terms: Nineteenth -Century British Women Writers and Their Publishers
… analyzes the place of gender in the Victorian literary marketplace, focusing particularly on four women writers and their dealings with the London publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son between the years 1860 and 1895. My primary sources include novels and biographies as well as contractual …