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The preface : American authorship in the twentieth century / Ross K. Tangedal.

9783030851514 (electronic bk.)
3030851516 (electronic bk.)
9783030851507
3030851508

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.

English

1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white)

10.1007/978-3-030-85151-4 doi

PS221

810.9/005

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. Tangedals approach offers a new way of examining American writers in the evolving literary marketplace of the twentieth century.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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