Writing Manuals for the Masses

1. Introduction: Literary Advice from Quill to Keyboard, Anneleen Masschelein.- 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.- 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, Françoise 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.- 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, Andrés Franco Harnache.- 15. Work and Writing Life: Shifts in the Relationship between ‘Work’ and ‘The Work’ in Twenty-First Century Literary Advice Memoirs, Elizabeth Kovach.- 16. “If You Can Read, You Can Write, Or Can You, Really?, Jim Collins.