Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity

Name: Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity
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ISBN: 9781442614239

ISBN-10: 1442614234

ISBN-13: 9781442614239

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: Lorraine York

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For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including her assistants and office staff, her publicists, her literary agents, and her editors. Lorraine York explores the ways in which the careers of famous writers are managed and maintained and the extent to which literary celebrity creates a constant tension in these writers’ lives between the need of solitude for creative purposes and the give-and-take of the business of being a writer of…

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List price: $40.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Publication date: 5/28/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Lorraine York is the Senator William McMaster Chair in Canadian Literature and Culture and a professor in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Dead Moose and the Publishing Pie



"You Are a Necessity of Life": Atwood and Literary Agency



"Who's the Very Best at Spellin'?": Editing Margaret Atwood



Keeping O.W. Toad Hopping Along: The Atwood Office



@MargaretAtwood: Interactive Media and the Management of Literary Celebrity



"The Cloak of Visibility": Art and Industry in the Works of Margaret Atwood


Postscript: Margaret Atwood for Mayor? Literary Celebrity in the Civic Realm


Works Cited


Index