Writing Manuals for the Masses: The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard

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1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard

Anneleen Masschelein

PART I: FROM FICTIONEERING TO WATTPAD

1. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895

John Caughey

1. You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James

Mary Stewart Atwell

1. Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author’s Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Paul Vlitos

1. ‘Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?’: Author Interviews as Literary Advice

Rebecca Roach

1. Stand out from the Crowd! Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities

Bronwen Thomas

PART II: CASE STUDIES OF LITERARY ADVICE

1. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks

Liorah Hoek

1. The Ready-Made-Writer in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals

Francoise Grauby

1. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers

Alexandria Peary

1. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event

Arne Vanraes

1. ‘Writing by Prescription’: Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development

Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein

PART III. ADOPTING AND RESISTING LITERARY ADVICE CULTURE

1. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing

Ioannis Tsitsovits

1. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature

Gert-Jan Meyntjens

1. Mostrar, no decir The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field

Andres Franco Harnache

1. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs

Elizabeth Kovach

1. If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?

Jim Collins