Writing Manuals for the Masses : The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard.

Intro -- Preface -- Praise for Writing Manuals for the Masses -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard -- Introduction -- The "Origin" of Literary Advice (Antiquity-1846) -- Preliminaries: From Classical Poetics to Professional Advice -- The Disputed Origin of Literary Advice: Edgar Allan Poe's "Philosophy of Composition" -- The Era of the Literary Advice Handbook -- The Bifurcation of Literary Advice: "The Art of Fiction" -- Form and Content of Literary Advice Handbooks from the Era of the Handbook and Beyond -- The Expansion of the Literary Advice Industry -- Literary Advice Moguls -- Advice in Literature -- The Role of Women in the Advice Industry -- 'The Program' and the Rise of the Advice Author as Author -- Creative Writing and Literary Advice -- Interviews and Literary Advice -- Hollywood Gurus and Advice Serials -- The Writing Memoir -- Advice in the Digital Literary Sphere -- How to Read This Book -- References -- Part I From Fictioneering to Wattpad -- 2 Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895 -- Introduction -- The Art of Discussing Fiction -- The Story of the Short Story -- Atalanta's School of Fiction -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 "You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art": The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James -- Introduction -- What Is a "Professional" Writer? -- Art as Mystery -- The Writer and the Painter -- The Prefaces -- The Deeply Wondering and the Really Sentient -- The Professional Students -- "History Develops, Art Stands Still" -- References -- 4 "Your Successful Man of Letters Is Your Successful Tradesman": Fiction and the Marketplace in British Author's Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Introduction.

Author's Guides, Agents, and Yearbooks: The Late-Victorian and Edwardian Literary Advice Industry -- "Novel-Writing Taught in Ten Lessons!": Literary Composition as an Art and Authorship as a Trade -- Challenges and Opportunities for Writers in a Changing Literary Marketplace -- Men of Genius, Literary Value, and the Business Side of Books -- "Prepare for Serious Work": Diligence, Professional Practicalities, and the Rules of the "Art of Fiction" -- Gender, Fiction, and Literary Advice -- References -- 5 "Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?": Author Interviews as Literary Advice -- Introduction -- "How Writers Work": Literary Advice in the Author Interview -- Prestige and Pencils: The Paris Review Interview -- Author Interviews and Online Literary Advice -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 "Stand Out from the Crowd!": Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities -- Background to Literary Advice Online -- The Rise of Wattpad -- How to Get Ahead on Wattpad -- Off-Site Sources of Advice for Wattpadders -- On-Site Advice and Support -- User Comments -- Conclusion -- References -- Part II Case Studies of Literary Advice -- 7 Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks -- Introduction -- Visual Plot Models as Central Nodes -- In the Beginning There Was… Aristotle -- A Development of Linear Plot Models: From "Freytag's Pyramid" to "Field's Paradigm" -- A Polar and a Circular Model Both Become Linear -- The Mountain Model, a Synthesis -- Plot Models as Generative Tools with the Hero's Journey -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 The "Ready-Made-Writer" in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals -- Introduction1 -- The Birth of the Creator -- Body and Energy -- Decor and Characters -- The Studious Apprentice -- Entrepreneur -- Conclusion -- References.

9 Taking Self-Help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers -- Introduction -- The Extracurriculum of Writing Instruction -- Teachers as Obstacles to Writing Ability -- Advocating for Universal Writing Ability -- The Role of the Unconscious in Writing -- Issues of Control and Creativity -- The Holistic Nature of Writing -- Elbow's Writing Without Teachers: The Informal Affecting the Formal in Aesthetic Education -- Conclusion -- References -- 10 A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-Writing as Event -- Introduction -- End-Less Writing: Writing's Event -- Gifted: Creative Receptivity -- Besideness: Making a Difference -- References -- 11 "Writing by Prescription": Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development -- Introduction -- Therapeutic Writing: A Longstanding History and a Heterogeneous Field -- Programmed Versus Non-restrictive Writing -- Jessica Kingsley Publishers: Turning Readers into Writers -- Three Therapeutic Writing Oeuvres: Gillie Bolton, Kate Thompson, and Celia Hunt -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Adopting and Resisting Literary Advice Culture -- 12 Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-Expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing -- Introduction -- Exercises in Uncreativity -- The Logic of the Index -- Self-Expression via Copying Vs. Copying as Self-Expression -- Literary Advice for the Twenty-First Century? -- References -- 13 Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature -- Introduction -- Creative Writing in France: The Atelier d'�ecriture -- Fran�cois Bon's Outils du roman -- Minor Literature in an International Context -- Minor Literature in the French Context -- Conclusion -- References -- 14 "Mostrar, no decir": The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics on the Hispanic Literary Field.

Introduction -- A Short History of Creative Writing Advice in the Hispanic World -- From Boom to MFA: The Rising Influence of Creative Writing Programs in Twenty-First-Century Hispanic Literature -- The Impact of Workshop Poetics on Hispanic Literature -- Conclusion -- References -- 15 Work and the Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship Between 'Work' and 'The Work' in Twenty-First-Century Literary-Advice Memoirs -- The Absorption Narrative: Labor Transformed by Artistic Critique and Vice Versa -- Visions of Autonomous Production: Twentieth-Century Models of Literary Advice -- Caught Between 'Work' and 'the Work': Literary-Advice Memoirs of Late Capitalism -- Conclusion: The Ambivalent Politics of the Literary-Advice Memoir -- Bibliography -- 16 "If You Can Read, You Can Write, or Can You, Really?" -- Introduction -- The "Advicization" of Contemporary Reading/Writing Culture -- Curating Advice in Contemporary Fiction -- Telling Your Story, or Let's Build a Home -- The Empire Strikes Back, or No, You Really Shouldn't Tell Your Story, and the Evils of Graphomania -- Sanctifying Solitude and the Dangers of the Single Story About Writing -- "I Wanted to Start with Truth and End with Art" -- Conclusion: How to Make Literary Fiction Matter in Digital Culture? -- References -- Index.

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