xix, 314 pages :illustrations ;25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preface: Bezos as novelist --Introduction: Retail therapy --Fiction as a service --What Is multinational literature? Amazon all over the world --Generic love, or, The realism of romance --Unspeakable conventionality : the perversity of the Kindle --World-scaling : literary fiction in the genre system --Surplus fiction : the undeath of the novel --Afterword: Inside the box.
"In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of literary experimentation in an unlikely location: in the realms of self-publishing created by Amazon. Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the abyss of critical disregard, McGurl offers a Copernican revolution in the world of letters: rather than giving central importance to the critically lionized highbrows--Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Elena Ferrante, and Amitav Ghosh, among others--he discovers that their fiction orbits countless unknown authors forging a career through untraditional means"--Provided by publisher.
1.Electronic publishing.2.Self-publishing.3.Fiction--Publishing.4.Fiction--Authorship.Dynamic Details