This book traces a literary and cultural history of interviews from the 1860s to today; it reveals the ways in which writers have been interview subjects, interviewers and have used interviews creatively in their fiction and non-fiction. Cover --...
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This book traces a literary and cultural history of interviews from the 1860s to today; it reveals the ways in which writers have been interview subjects, interviewers and have used interviews creatively in their fiction and non-fiction. Cover -- Literature and the Rise of the Interview -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction: Through the Keyhole: Skeletons in the Literary Closet -- EIGHT PROPOSITIONS ON INTERVIEWS -- Interviews mediate conversation while promising communicative immediacy -- Interviews are less a genre than a form -- Print interviewing is an inscription technology -- Interviews have been a key means of constituting two versions of subjectivity in modernity -- In the tension they instigate over subject constitution, interviews offer a site of contestation for the figure of the author -- Interviews construct-while challenging our definitions of-publics -- Within literary culture, interviews frequently act as 'technotexts' -- In the literary field, interviews function according to the 'Law of Leaky Abstractions' -- SCOPING THE SKELETONS -- Prologue: Setting the Scene . . . The Hawthorne-Lowell Scandal -- 'LOWELL TALKS OUT:' PRIVATE CONVERSATION AND PUBLISHING OPINIONS -- AMERICAN PLAIN-SPEAKING AND BRITISH GOSSIP -- 1: Authorship, Inscription, and 'The Great American Interviewer' -- LITERARY REALISM AND THE AUTHOR AS INTERVIEWER -- HENRY JAMES, FEMALE INTERVIEWING, AND THE LIMITS OF TRANSCRIPTION -- THE NEW WOMAN INTERVIEWER -- INTIMATE INTERVIEWS: TRANSCRIBING SPEECHLESSNESS -- 2: Personality, Celebrity, and Modernism's 'Impossible Interviews' -- THERAPEUTIC INTERVIEWING IN THE AGE OF PERSONALITY -- CELEBRITY CULTURE, HOLLYWOOD, AND THE FEMINIZATION OF INTERVIEWING -- MODERNISM'S IMPOSSIBLE INTERVIEWS -- Impersonal poetics -- Impersonal interviews -- 3: Conversing with Purpose in the Interwar Years -- THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND INTERVIEWING AS A RESEARCH TECHNOLOGY -- RESEARCH INTERVIEWING AND LITERATURE -- Markets and brows -- IN THE MIDDLE WITH EVERYMAN -- WRITERS AT WORK AND CRITICAL READING.
