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Novels about Novelists: An Undetected Epidemic? The Author-Story in Criticism Reading Closely, from a Distance A Theory of the Author-Story The Rise of Novels about Novelists PART I: Writing to Survive (1850–1899) 1. Narratives of Failure: The Artist and His Antagonists in Victorian-Author Stories Poverty as Purity in Carlyle’s "The Hero as Man of Letters" From Pot-Boiler to Polemic: Herman Melville’s Pierre Pardoning the "unpardonable sin" in George Gissing’s New Grub Street Failing to Succeed and Succeeding in Failure: Mixed Metaphors in Henry James’s Author-Stories Conclusions 2. Woman or Writer? Silly Lady Novelists and New Woman Writers Silly Lady Novelists and the New Woman Writer An Impasse: Olympia’s Journal The Story of a Modern Woman by "A Spinster of Independent Means" George Paston: A Writer of Books Red Pottage: Mary Cholmondeley’s "Child of the Brain" Conclusions PART II: After the Great Divide (1900–1950) 3. The Poet in the Prose: Childhood and Romanticism in the Modernist Künstlerroman The Autobiographical Künstlerroman A Romantic Connection: The Child and the Poet Tonio Kröger: Thomas Mann’s "Favorite Literary Child" James Joyce’s Portrait of the Poet as a Prose Writer Thomas Wolfe’s Long Look Homeward Conclusions 4. "Buried at the Cross-Roads": The Disappearing Acts of Women Writers Masculinity, Modernity, Celebrity Where are all the Women Writers? "Probably they all wrote, except the women": Dorothy Richardson’s Pilgrimage Edith Wharton’s Modernist and His Muse "The buried woman...the great man": Dawn Powell’s Turn, Magic Wheel Conclusions CODA: The Author-Story after 1950 Appendix A Appendix

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