Literature and the Creative Economy - by Sarah Brouillette Paperback

About the Book

This is the first book to consider what ideas about the creative economy derive from historic conceptions of the work of literary authorship and the first to discuss what writers make of the placement of their work in instrumental service of the creative economy.

Book Synopsis

This is the first book to consider what ideas about the creative economy derive from historic conceptions of the work of literary authorship and the first to discuss what writers make of the placement of their work in instrumental service of the creative economy.

Review Quotes

"Brouillette has written what will quickly become the definitive account of contemporary British literature--and of the now pandemic effort to monetize creativity. Over the last twenty years, management gurus, policy wonks, and academics of all stripes have set out to calculate the value of self-expression, both to local and national economies and the legions of precarious workers now encouraged to style themselves self-promoting entrepreneurs. Poets and novelists have made similar if far more complex calculations, argues Brouillette's brilliant study, even as they've kept a melancholy eye fixed on the slow but seemingly unstoppable erosion of their art's autonomy."--Michael Szalay "University of California, Irvine"

"Sarah Brouillete's Literature and the Creative Economy is a pathbreaking work that does not simply critique the idea of the creative economy, but rather shows us how it actually works--most innovatively, in the changes it has produced in the institution of literature itself."--Nicholas Brown "University of Illinois at Chicago"

About the Author

Sarah Brouillette is Professor of English at Carleton University. She is the author of Postcolonial Writers and the Global Literary Marketplace (2007).