Writing Manuals for the Masses

1.       Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard

Anneleen Masschelein

            PART I: FROM FICTIONEERING TO WATTPAD

2.       Learning Fiction by Subscription: The Art and Business of Literary Advice 1884-1895

John Caughey

3.       "You Will Be Surprised that Fiction Has Become an Art": The Language of Craft and the Legacy of Henry James

Mary Stewart Atwell

4.       "Your Successful Man of Letters is Your Successful Tradesman": Fiction and the Marketplace in the British Author's Guides of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Paul Vlitos

5.       'Do You Use a Pencil or a Pen?': Author Interviews as Literary Advice

Rebecca Roach

6.       "Stand out from the Crowd!": Literary Advice in Online Writing Communities

Bronwen Thomas

PART II: CASE STUDIES OF LITERARY ADVICE

7.       Tools for Shaping Stories? Visual Plot Models in a Sample of Anglo-American Advice Handbooks

Liorah Hoek

8.       The "Ready-Made-Writer" in a Selection of Contemporary Francophone Literary Advice Manuals

Franoise Grauby

9.       Taking Self-help Books Seriously: The Informal Aesthetic Education of Writers

Alexandria Peary

10.   A Pulse Before Shelf Life: Literary Advice on Notebook-writing as Event

Arne Vanraes

11.   'Writing by Prescription': Creative Writing as Therapy and Personal Development

Leni Van Goidsenhoven and Anneleen Masschelein

PART III. ADOPTING AND RESISTING LITERARY ADVICE CULTURE

12.   Reproduction as Literary Production: Self-expression and the Index in Kenneth Goldsmith's Uncreative Writing

Ioannis Tsitsovits

13.   Creative Writing Crosses the Atlantic: An Attempt at Creating a Minor French Literature

Gert-Jan Meyntjens

14.   "Mostrar, no decir": The Influence of and Resistance Against Workshop Poetics in the Hispanic Literary Field

Andrs Franco Harnache

15.   Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between 'Work' and 'The Work' in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs