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The Novelist in the Novel

- Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship, 1850-1949

About The Novelist in the Novel

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.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9781032460901
  • Binding:
  • Hardback
  • Pages:
  • 272
  • Published:
  • November 13, 2023
  • Dimensions:
  • 152x229x16 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 535 g.
Delivery: 2-3 weeks
Expected delivery: December 14, 2024

Description of The Novelist in the Novel

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.

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