Novel competition : American fiction and the cultural economy, 1965-1999 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Brier, Evan (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2024]
Series:	New American canon.
Subjects:	American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism. Fiction > Publishing > United States > History > 20th century. American literature > Publishing > History > 20th century. Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century. Mass media and literature > United States > History > 20th century. 1900-1999 Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Devaluing the novel
Capote's place: New York, Kansas, and the novel
Unliterary history and literary disbelief: "real Black publishing" at Random House
The mattering crisis: literary responses to total entertainment
Bigness and the novel: from the Middle East to the American West
Full disclosure: novels, conglomerates, and the editor as hero
Epilogue: Memoirs, television, and how art matters.