TY - BOOK ID - 86364055 TI - The Preface : American Authorship in the Twentieth Century PY - 2021 SN - 3030851516 3030851508 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Authorship in literature. KW - Authorship KW - Authors and readers KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - Readers and authors KW - Authoring (Authorship) KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - American literature. KW - Technology in literature. KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Books KW - America KW - Printing. KW - Publishers and publishing. KW - Economics and literature. KW - Celebrities. KW - Audiences. KW - History of the Book. KW - North American Literature. KW - Printing and Publishing. KW - Literature Business. KW - Celebrity Studies. KW - Fan and Audience Studies. KW - Audiences, Communication KW - Communication audiences KW - Communication KW - Spectators KW - Celebrity culture KW - Celebs KW - Cult of celebrity KW - Famous people KW - Famous persons KW - Illustrious people KW - Well-known people KW - Persons KW - Fan clubs KW - Literature and economics KW - Book publishing KW - Book industries and trade KW - Booksellers and bookselling KW - Printing, Practical KW - Typography KW - Graphic arts KW - History. KW - Literatures. KW - Social aspects KW - Economic aspects KW - Publishing UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86364055 AB - 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. Tangedal’s approach offers a new way of examining American writers in the evolving literary marketplace of the twentieth century. ER -