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Fictional novelists and other author characters have been a staple of novels and stories from the early nineteenth century onwards. What is it that attracts authors to representing their own kind in fiction? Author Fictions addresses this question from a theoretical and historical perspective. Narrative representations of literary authorship not only reflect the aesthetic convictions and social conditions of their actual authors or their time; they also take an active part in negotiating and shaping these conditions. The book unfolds the history of such 'author fictions' in European and North American texts since the early nineteenth century as a literary history of literary authorship, ranging from the Victorian bildungsroman to contemporary autofiction. It combines rhetorical and sociological approaches to answer the question how literature makes authors. Identifying 'author fictions' as narratives that address the fragile material conditions of literary creation in the actual and symbolic economies of production, Ingo Berensmeyer explores how these texts elaborate and manipulate concepts and models of authorship. This book will be relevant to English, American and comparative literary studies and to anyone interested in the topic of literary authorship.

Authors in literature. --- Authorship in literature. --- Fiction --- History and criticism. --- Authorship in narrative studies. --- Literary sociology. --- Novel since 1800. --- Rhetorical poetics.

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What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these questions and explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times. The province's literature is ideally suited to such a study because of its bicultural character-in both English and French, periods of intense literary creativity occurred at different times and for different reasons. What emerges is a cultural geography in New Brunswick that has existed not in isolation from the rest of Canada but often at the creative forefront of imagined alternatives in identity and citizenship. At a time when cultural industries are threatened by forces that seek to negate difference and impose uniformity, New Brunswick at the Crossroads provides an understanding of the intersection of cultures and social economies, contributing to critical discussions about what constitutes "the creative" in Canadian society, especially in rural, non-central spaces like New Brunswick.

Canadian literature --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Acadia. --- Acadian literature. --- Acadie. --- Atlantic Canada. --- Atlantic Canadian literature. --- Chantal Richard. --- Christl Verduyn. --- David Creelman. --- Gwendolyn Davies. --- Marie-Linda Lord. --- Maritime. --- New Brunswick literature. --- New Brunswick. --- Renaissance communities. --- Thomas Hodd. --- Tony Tremblay. --- bi-culturalism. --- bilingualism. --- creative communities. --- cultural economy. --- cultural geography. --- cultural pluralism. --- culture. --- ferment. --- literary history. --- literary sociology. --- regionalism. --- revision.