Writing, authorship, and genius: literary women and modes of literary production

Williams, Susan S.; Bauer, Dale M.

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“…Please note that here and below I use and draw attention to masculine pronouns for authors, not to prefer them, but to show that they have been preferred. On the history and gender of genius, see Battersby 1989, Bentley 2005, Gilbert and Gubar 2000(1976, Jefferson 2009and 2015, McMahon 2013, Paliyenko 2016, Perloff 2010, Weber 2012and Williams 2012 most atypical genius roles and unquestioningly reinforces the equivalence between authorship and rare genius. What could be called the "exemplary genius" move also constitutes, usually, an ethical bet on the status quo, since it reifies raced and gendered conventions and beliefs about the actual bodies that genius might inhabit.…”

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“…Still, a stark depiction can help us understand how passages between the opposing 5. Items in the MLA bibliography indexed with the subject terms "author" or "authorship" were actually slightly greater in number in the 1990s than today, which seems, from a glance at titles, to reflect the state of the response to the Barthes-Foucault disruption. As examples of the discourse beyond Barthes and Foucault, see also Adams 2014, Benjamin 1978, Bennett 2005band 2005c, Bernesmeyer, Buelens, and Demoor 2019, Booth 1983, Bracha 2016, Buurma 2007, Dowling 2009, Fabian 2007, Garcia 1996, Gilbert and Gubar 2000(1976, Hochman 2001, Irwin 2002, Leary and Nash 2009, Nehamas 1987, Rohrbach 2020, West III 1988, Williams 2007, and Woodmansee 1994aand 1994b. Interestingly, "author" is not a term taken up in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (Williams 2014(Williams [1976) nor is it in the revised New Keywords (Bennett, Grossberg, and Morris 2005) -although the latter does contain an entry for "audience".…”

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Genius Trouble

Dean¹

2021

Textual Cultures

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This essay assesses the contradiction between the widespread critical acceptance of the post-structuralist mortification of authorship, on one hand, and the rise and continued purchase of authorship-focused scholarship, on the other. What seems to be missing is a theory of authorship that takes into account the fact that authors themselves have had to reckon with authorship as a construction, particularly the ideological emphasis on genius as it was commercialized during the “industrial era” of print publication. Several stories by Henry James that stage author-reader relations offer glimpses of his idea of authorship and suggest that, for him, authorial self-consciousness plays out as a queer performance.

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