The Preface: American Authorship in the Twentieth Century Ross K. Tangedal 1st ed. 2021 Edition

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030851516
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030851514
• Author:  Ross K. Tangedal

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.

Table of contents:

1. Cover
2. Front Matter
3. 1. Introduction: An Influence on the Public
4. 2. A Proper Reading: Willa Cather’s Introductions to My Ántonia
5. 3. Stepping In or Turning Back: Ring Lardner and Authorial Resistance
6. 4. Inhibiting Signposts: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Authorial Anxiety
7. 5. The Will to Control: Ernest Hemingway and the Action of Writing
8. 6. A Safe Distance: Robert Penn Warren’s Introductions to All the King’s Men
9. 7. Ensuring Presence: Toni Morrison and the Language of Legacy
10. 8. Coda: Any Given Moment Has Its Value
11. Back Matter

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