Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of professional authorship in America. Many of the prefaces written by American writers in the twentieth century catalogue the shifting landscape of a more self-consciously professionalized trade, one fraught with tension and compromise, and influenced by evolving reading publics. With analyses of Willa Cather, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Penn Warren, and Toni Morrison, Ross K. Tangedal argues that writers used prefaces as a means of expanding and complicating authority over their work and, ultimately, as a way to write about their careers. Tangedal's approach offers a new way of examining American writers in the evolving literary marketplace of the twentieth century.
| ISBN: | 9783030851538 |
| Publication date: | 7th November 2022 |
| Author: | Ross K Tangedal |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 220 pages |
| Series: | New Directions in Book History |
| Genres: |
Library and information sciences / Museology Popular culture Publishing industry and journalism Literature: history and criticism |
Building on insights from the fields of textual criticism, bibliography, narratology, authorship studies, and book history, The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century examines the role that prefaces played in the development of professional authorship in America. Many of the prefaces written by American writers in the twentieth century catalogue the shifting landscape of a more self-consciously professionalized trade, one fraught with tension and compromise, and influenced by evolving reading publics.
The Preface features in the following genres: Library and information sciences / Museology, Popular culture, Publishing industry and journalism, Literature: history and criticism
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The Preface was written by Ross K Tangedal and published by Palgrave Macmillan an imprint of Springer International Publishing
The Preface has 220 pages
Yes it is part of New Directions in Book History series
£98.99, reduced from £109.99. In Stock.