Literary Careers in the Modern Era

1. Introduction: Brilliant Careers?

1. Introduction: Brilliant Careers?
Guy Davidson, Nicola Evans

Part I. Career/Success

2. An Apologia for Buffoons: The Paradox of G.K. Chesterton’s Literary Authority in His Autobiography
Chene Heady

3. From the Audience to the Stage: Literary Celebrity and Literary Career in Norman Mailer’s Advertisements for Myself

John O’Brien

4. The Retrospective Stage: Late Career Fiction and Authorial Self-Renewal
Hywel Dix

Part II. Queer Careers

5. Broadly Queer and Specifically Gay: The Celebrity and Career of Gertrude Stein
Jeff Solomon

6. Sexuality and Shame in James Baldwin’s Career
Guy Davidson

7. Parallel: Parallax—The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand
Elizabeth McMahon

8. Christos Tsiolkas, ‘Career’, and Anti-Capitalist Critique
Leigh Dale

Part III. New Contexts: Rethinking How Literary Careers are Made

9. Brilliant or Bust? Tom Keneally’s Literary Career
Paul Sharrad

10. Inside the Writer’s Room, the Artist’s Studio and Flaubert’s Parrot

Nicola Evans

11. She Needs a Website of Her Own: The ‘Indie’ Woman Writer and Contemporary Publishing
Mohanalakshmi Rajakumar, Rumsha Shahzad

12. Who Are You Calling an Author? Changing Definitions of Career Legitimacy for Novelists in the Digital Era
Laura Dietz

Keywords: Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, North American Literature, Fiction, Literary History