Literary Advice, British Fiction 1880-1914 and the Birth of the Creative Writing Industry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vlitos, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British literature.

Creative writing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2026.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

The first full-length study of the late Victorian and Edwardian writing advice industry, exploring how primary instructive material and British fiction of the period represented, reflected upon, and entered into dialogue with this emerging phenomenon.

Contents:

Introduction Chapter One: 'You'll Never Guess what I am Writing Just Now': Author's Guides and the Literary Advice Industry 1880-1914 Chapter Two: Literary Advice in British Fiction 1880-1914 Chapter Three: Literary Advice, Gender and the Female-Authored Novel of Literary Life 1880-1914 Chapter Four: Reading like a Writer: Readers, Writers, Literary Advice and Class 1880-1914 Conclusion: The Afterlives of Late Victorian and Edwardian Literary Advice Bibliography Index

ISBN:

1-350-26623-X

1-350-26621-3

1-350-26622-1

9781350266216

OCLC:

1569124183