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Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women : portraits of the writer in popular culture

Title
Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women : portraits of the writer in popular culture / edited by Cynthia Cravens.
Publication
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]

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Additional Authors
  • Cravens, Cynthia
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Description
1 online resource.
Subject
  • Authors in popular culture
  • Authors in literature
  • Authors in motion pictures
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2023).
Contents
Introduction: Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women: portraits of the writer in popular culture / Cynthia Cravens -- Finding their way: coming of age as a writer in John Irving's The world according to Garp and A widow for one year / Megan A. Anderson -- Traveling with writers: gender, genre, and creativity in Bleaker house and Less / Julie Barst -- The narrating serpent: Two distinct representations of authorship in Thomas Nashe's The unfortunate traveller / Sarah Briest -- Public personas of dangerous men: killing constructed identities with suicide by sequel / Christopher Burlingame -- Follow the lead: the evolving story of Lois Lane and her writing / Sandra Eckard -- Scribbling pleasure: undertaking the sentence of desire / Amy B. Hagenrater-Gooding -- Jane-as-Fanny: Patricia Rozema's woman writer in Mansfield Park / Melanie D. Holm -- From silly lady novelists to celebrity male modernists: gender and the representation of authorship in fiction 1850-1949 / Elizabeth King -- Re-gendering genre: self-conscious supernaturalism in Muriel Spark's The comforters / Alexandra Oxner -- The evolution of Daredevil's Karen Page: from damsel-in-distress to writer-hero / Gian Pagnucci.
ISBN
  • 9781793620613
  • 179362061X
LCCN
2022014748
OCLC
2022014748
Title
Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women : portraits of the writer in popular culture / edited by Cynthia Cravens.
Publisher
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2023]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 09, 2023).
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Available from home with a valid library card
Added Author
Cravens, Cynthia, editor.
EBSCOhost
Other Form:
Print version: Geniuses, addicts, and scribbling women Lanham : Lexington Books, [2022] 9781793620606 (DLC) 2022014747
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