Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women : portraits of the writer in popular culture / edited by Cynthia Cravens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cravens, Cynthia, editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors in popular culture.

Authors in literature.

Authors in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 237 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

Contents:

Introduction: Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women: portraits of the writer in popular culture / Cynthia Cravens

Finding their way: coming of age as a writer in John Irving's The world according to Garp and A widow for one year / Megan A. Anderson

Traveling with writers: gender, genre, and creativity in Bleaker house and Less / Julie Barst

The narrating serpent: Two distinct representations of authorship in Thomas Nashe's The unfortunate traveller / Sarah Briest

Public personas of dangerous men: killing constructed identities with suicide by sequel / Christopher Burlingame

Follow the lead: the evolving story of Lois Lane and her writing / Sandra Eckard

Scribbling pleasure: undertaking the sentence of desire / Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding

Jane-as-Fanny: Patricia Rozema's woman writer in Mansfield Park / Melanie D. Holm

From silly lady novelists to celebrity male modernists: gender and the representation of authorship in fiction 1850-1949 / Elizabeth King

Re-gendering genre: self-conscious supernaturalism in Muriel Spark's The comforters / Alexandra Oxner

The evolution of Daredevil's Karen Page: from damsel-in-distress to writer-hero / Gian Pagnucci.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women

ISBN:

9781793620613

179362061X

Publisher Number:

40031580594

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.