The Novelist in the Novel: Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship, 1850-1949

by Elizabeth King

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature, arguing that our notions of literary genius are implicitly shaped by and explicitly questioned in novels about novelists, a genre that has been critically underexamined.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032460903
• ISBN13: 9781032460901
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"