Writing, a woman's business : women, writing and the marketplace /

Writing, a woman's business : women, writing and the marketplace /

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Imprint:Manchester [England] ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by St. Martin's Press, 1998.
Description:xiv, 197 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Feminism -- Authorship -- Marketing.
Women authors.
Women and literature.
Feminism -- Authorship -- Marketing.
Women and literature.
Women authors.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3002672
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Other authors / contributors:Simons, Judy.
Fullbrook, Kate.
ISBN:0719052807
0719052815 (pb)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Women, fiction and the reading public
  • 1. Women and the sensation business
  • 2. The making of a middle-brow success: Winifred Holtby's
  • 3. 'Extremely valuable property': the marketing of Rebecca
  • 4. Marketing the 'woman writer'
  • 5. Her brilliant career: the marketing of Angela Carter
  • Part II. Theorising the marketplace
  • 6. Simone de Beauvoir and the intellectual marketplace
  • 7. The business of a 'new art': Woolf, Potter and postmodernism
  • 8. Performing hysteria: Anne Sexton's 'business' of writing suicide
  • 9. Marketing Black women's texts: the case of Alice Walker
  • Part III. Women in the business
  • 10. Women writers as an unprotected species
  • 11. The contemporary writer: gender and genre
  • 12. Women, publishing and power
  • Index

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