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
2. Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895, John Caughey
3. "You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art": The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James, Mary Stewart Atwell
4. "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
5. 'Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?': Author Interviews as Literary Advice, Rebecca Roach
6. "Stand out from the Crowd!": Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities, Bronwen Thomas
7. Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks, Liorah Hoek
8. The "Ready-Made-Writer" in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals, Françoise Grauby
9. Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers, Alexandria Peary
10. A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event, Arne Vanraes
11. 'Writing by Prescription': Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development, Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein
12. Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing, Ioannis Tsitsovits
13. Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature, Gert-Jan Meyntjens
14. "Mostrar, no decir": The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field, Andrés Franco Harnache
15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between 'Work' and 'The Work' in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach
16. "If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins

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