A collection of essays bringing together views from women who make literature their "business". Taken as a whole, the essays form a dialogue between authors, editors, critics and teachers of literature, thus illuminating the debate about women, writing and the market-place. The book examines some of the difficulties that women experience in trying to write themselves into a culture which in critical and commercial terms has been largely dominated by men. Through its focus on the commercial and professional dimensions of women's writing, the volume reflects a shift in the current critical climate away from the idea of women as marginal to the publishing industry and towards a celebration of their success.
Writing: a Woman's Business
Writing: a Woman's Business
Zusammenfassung
This collection of essays brings together views from women who make literature their business. Taken as a whole, they form a dynamic dialogue between authors, editors, critics and teachers of literature illuminating a vital and under-researched debate about women, writing and the market-place.
Writing: a Woman's Business Zusammenfassung
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction - writing - a woman's business. Part 1 Women, fiction and the reading public: women and the sensation business, Lyn Pykett; a middlebrow success - Winifred Holtby's "South Riding", Marion Shaw; extremely valuable property - the marketing of "Rebecca", Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik; marketing the woman's novel, Clare Hanson; her brilliant carrer - the marketing of Angela Carter, Elaine Jordan. Part II Theorizing the marketplace: Simone de Beauvoir and the intellectual marketplace, Kate Fullbrook; the business of a new art - Woolf, Potter and postmodernism, Maggie Humm; performing hysteria - Anne Sexton's "Business of Writing Suicide", Elisabeth Bronfen; marketing black women's texts - the case of Alice Walker, Kadiatu Kanneh. Part III Women in the business: women writers as unprotected species, Margaret Drabble; the contemporary writer - gender and genre, Maggie Gee and Lisa Appignanesi; women, publishing and power, Judy Simons interviews Carmen Cahil.
Zusätzliche Informationen
GOR002024684
9780719052811
0719052815
Writing: a Woman's Business
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Manchester University Press
1998-03-12
224
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