- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
-
I The Reading World -
1 Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies -
2 Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private -
3 Literary Advice and Advisers -
4 Reviews and Reviewers -
5 The Great Tradition -
6 The Commemoration Movement -
7 English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or, ‘’E dunno où il est!’* -
II Writers and the Public: the Price of Fame -
8 Product Advertising and Self-Advertising -
9 The Star Turn -
10 Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure -
11 Securing the Future -
12 Titles and Laurels -
13 Social Prestige and Clubbability -
14 The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle -
15 Looking and Acting the Part -
16 Lecture Tours -
17 Literary Properties and Agencies -
III Best-sellers -
18 Market Conditions -
19 In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice -
20 Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay -
21 The Epic Ego: Hall Caine -
22 The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli -
23 Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field -
IV Writers and the Public: Penmen as Pundits -
24 The Campaign Trail -
25 Public Service and Party Politics -
26 Pens at War -
27 Pricking Censorship -
28 Theology versus Sociology and Psychology - Bibliography
- Index of Book, Essay, Pamphlet, Play, Poem and Short Story Titles
- General Index
Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
- Chapter:
- (p.398) 10 Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure
- Source:
- Writers, Readers, and Reputations
- Author(s):
Philip Waller (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter considers how people became professional writers is one subject of this chapter, looking at new schools of journalism as well help and advice given to novices by the more established. A clear refrain is writers' insecurity and impecuniousness. Relatively few lived by the pen and fewer still lived well. Yet most ordinary occupations were hazardous and ill-paid, and writing as a career continued to attract because of the romance associated with the exercise of imagination and the creation of literature of lasting significance. While the vast majority failed to become independent writers, many thousands were proud to be part-time authors and to find outlets for their poetry and stories in the expanding newspaper and periodicals market. The chapter also examines writers' mutual assistance in manipulatiing publicity media — interviewing or writing about each other, or planting items in gossip columns — as the fashion for personal journalism, another facet of the New Journalism, developed. Douglas Sladen, initiator of a remodelled Who's Who, was a key figure in this promotion of writers to celebrity status and, while satirised by Pinero and others, most were pleased to have their names in the public eye.
Keywords: new Journalism, personal journalism, gossip columns, who's Who
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Illustrations
- List of Abbreviations
-
I The Reading World -
1 Back to the Future: Authors at the Movies -
2 Consenting and Dissenting Bibliophiles in Public and Private -
3 Literary Advice and Advisers -
4 Reviews and Reviewers -
5 The Great Tradition -
6 The Commemoration Movement -
7 English Literature’s Foreign Relations; or, ‘’E dunno où il est!’* -
II Writers and the Public: the Price of Fame -
8 Product Advertising and Self-Advertising -
9 The Star Turn -
10 Playing the Press: Entry and Exposure -
11 Securing the Future -
12 Titles and Laurels -
13 Social Prestige and Clubbability -
14 The Aristocratic Round and Salon Circle -
15 Looking and Acting the Part -
16 Lecture Tours -
17 Literary Properties and Agencies -
III Best-sellers -
18 Market Conditions -
19 In Cupid’s Chains: Charles Garvice -
20 Hymns and Heroines: Florence Barclay -
21 The Epic Ego: Hall Caine -
22 The Demonic Dreamer: Marie Corelli -
23 Authors at Play: Nat Gould Leads the Field -
IV Writers and the Public: Penmen as Pundits -
24 The Campaign Trail -
25 Public Service and Party Politics -
26 Pens at War -
27 Pricking Censorship -
28 Theology versus Sociology and Psychology - Bibliography
- Index of Book, Essay, Pamphlet, Play, Poem and Short Story Titles
- General Index
