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作 者：John Sutherland ; with illustrations by Martin Rowson.
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ISBN：9781602393714
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简介
One of our best-known and best-loved literary critics turns his attention to the more bizarre areas of literature in this miscellany of fact and trivia. Which author had the heaviest brain? What was the original title of 1984? What do 12% of all winners of the Booker prize have in common? When did cigarettes start making an appearance in English literature? And, while we're at it, who wrote the first Western, and is there any link between asthma and literary genius? Sutherland's irreverent literary masterpiece illuminates every topic imaginable, from author advances to civil war literature to Victorian sex to odd-things-eaten-by-literary characters (think Patrick Bateman's girlfriend in American Psycho). This is the ideal anthology of useless information for all book lovers.--Publisher description.
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Table Of Contents:
Introduction xi
Literary Baked Meats
Omelette Litteraire 3(2)
Dr. Johnson's Gulosity 5(3)
Knorr and a Nice Jelly 8(1)
Come and Get it 9(3)
Bovril: And World Domination 12(2)
Milk of Kindness; Grapes of Wrath 14(3)
To Finish With, A Lorna Doone Biscuit 17(8)
The Body of Literature: Heads, Lungs, Hearts, and Bowels
Head Cheese 25(1)
Heady Stuff 26(1)
Asthma and Genius 27(1)
Proust and Asthma 28(2)
James's Irritable Bowel Syndrome 30(2)
Irritable Bowels (II) 32(1)
Ill Wind 33(3)
Ill Wind (II) 36(3)
Hardy's Heart 39(2)
Hardy's Heart (II) 41(3)
Can We Clone Dickens? 44(5)
Tools of the Trade
`Set it Down': But How Exactly? 49(2)
The First Typewriter-Writer 51(1)
Jack versus Blick 52(3)
The Computerized Novel 55(3)
Serving the Writer 58(5)
Sex and the Victorians
First-Night Nerves 63(3)
The Carlyles' Wedding Night 66(1)
Dorothea's Wedding Night 67(4)
George Eliot's Two Honeymoons 71(1)
The Language of Flowers 72(2)
Green Carnations (continued) 74(2)
Love My Manuscript More Than You 76(5)
Better Than Sex, Some Say
Three Castles 81(2)
Bond's Baccy 83(1)
Make Mine du Maurier 84(3)
Du Maurier the Younger: Cigarettes Again 87(1)
Du Maurier the Third: Rebecca 88(5)
Some Curious Literary Records: Best, Worst, and Most
The Worst Novelist Ever 93(3)
The Best Novel(ist) Ever 96(2)
My Pen is Quick 98(2)
Slow Coach 100(1)
Hardest Working 101(3)
The Most Arduous 104(2)
Chalk, Pen, or Typewriter? 106(1)
Little Writing 107(3)
Writing Long 110(2)
Writing Short 112(2)
The Shortest Poem 114(2)
The Most Productive Holiday in English Literature 116(3)
Most Misquoted 119(6)
Literary Crimewatch
Rape and the Ethical Classroom 125(4)
In the Dock: Ma Hump 129(3)
The First Spliff 132(2)
Literary Assault and Battery 134(3)
Gunplay 137(1)
Gunplay (II): Arms and the Woman 138(1)
Gunplay (III): Arms and the Men 138(3)
Gunplay (IV): The Hemingway Solution 141(6)
Who? Who? Who?
Who `Wrote' Paradise Lost? 147(2)
Who `Wrote' The Tragic Muse? 149(1)
Who Wrote The Odyssey? 150(3)
Who Wrote the First Western? 153(1)
Who invented the Supercomputer (in Literature)? 154(2)
Who Wrote the King James Bible? 156(5)
Name Games
Why `Bronte'? 161(4)
Adjectivals 165(2)
Etiquettery 167(4)
What's in a Name? 171(3)
What's in a Name (II)? 174(3)
What's in a Name (III)? 177(1)
What's in a Title? 178(5)
Readers Distinguished and Less So
Smart Writers, Dumb Readers 183(3)
Dumb Readers (II) 186(1)
Presidential Readers 187(3)
Presidential Readers (II) 190(3)
Prime-ministerial Readers 193(4)
Mammon and the Book Trade
Product Placement 197(2)
Product Placement (II) 199(2)
There's Life in the Old Corpse Yet 201(3)
Lies, Damn Lies, and Bestseller Lists 204(4)
What was the Most Popular Novel in the American Civil War? 208(3)
Books Go to War: Continued 211(2)
Listomania 213(2)
The Potter Effect 215(2)
Jam, Gollys, and the S-word 217(3)
Go Figure 220(5)
Wheels
WWJD? 225(2)
Platform 93/4 227(2)
Wrong-Headedness 229(1)
Celebrity Car Crash: Not a Literary Thing 230(7)
Morbid Curiosity
What Killed Anthony Trollope? 237(1)
Dying Well: Too Well 238(2)
The Wallpaper Actually did Go 240(1)
The Werther Effect 241(2)
The Baskerville Effect 243(2)
Cause of Death: George Orwell 245(1)
More Wertherisms 245(2)
Graham Greene: Wertherian 247(2)
Dying Well? Or Dead Drunk? 249(1)
Hart Crane: Death by Water (and Whisky) 250(2)
Dying Conscientiously 252(2)
What Was That He Said? 254(3)
`Good Career Move, Truman' 257(6)
Curious Connections: A Terminal Quiz
Questions 263(1)
Answers 264
Introduction xi
Literary Baked Meats
Omelette Litteraire 3(2)
Dr. Johnson's Gulosity 5(3)
Knorr and a Nice Jelly 8(1)
Come and Get it 9(3)
Bovril: And World Domination 12(2)
Milk of Kindness; Grapes of Wrath 14(3)
To Finish With, A Lorna Doone Biscuit 17(8)
The Body of Literature: Heads, Lungs, Hearts, and Bowels
Head Cheese 25(1)
Heady Stuff 26(1)
Asthma and Genius 27(1)
Proust and Asthma 28(2)
James's Irritable Bowel Syndrome 30(2)
Irritable Bowels (II) 32(1)
Ill Wind 33(3)
Ill Wind (II) 36(3)
Hardy's Heart 39(2)
Hardy's Heart (II) 41(3)
Can We Clone Dickens? 44(5)
Tools of the Trade
`Set it Down': But How Exactly? 49(2)
The First Typewriter-Writer 51(1)
Jack versus Blick 52(3)
The Computerized Novel 55(3)
Serving the Writer 58(5)
Sex and the Victorians
First-Night Nerves 63(3)
The Carlyles' Wedding Night 66(1)
Dorothea's Wedding Night 67(4)
George Eliot's Two Honeymoons 71(1)
The Language of Flowers 72(2)
Green Carnations (continued) 74(2)
Love My Manuscript More Than You 76(5)
Better Than Sex, Some Say
Three Castles 81(2)
Bond's Baccy 83(1)
Make Mine du Maurier 84(3)
Du Maurier the Younger: Cigarettes Again 87(1)
Du Maurier the Third: Rebecca 88(5)
Some Curious Literary Records: Best, Worst, and Most
The Worst Novelist Ever 93(3)
The Best Novel(ist) Ever 96(2)
My Pen is Quick 98(2)
Slow Coach 100(1)
Hardest Working 101(3)
The Most Arduous 104(2)
Chalk, Pen, or Typewriter? 106(1)
Little Writing 107(3)
Writing Long 110(2)
Writing Short 112(2)
The Shortest Poem 114(2)
The Most Productive Holiday in English Literature 116(3)
Most Misquoted 119(6)
Literary Crimewatch
Rape and the Ethical Classroom 125(4)
In the Dock: Ma Hump 129(3)
The First Spliff 132(2)
Literary Assault and Battery 134(3)
Gunplay 137(1)
Gunplay (II): Arms and the Woman 138(1)
Gunplay (III): Arms and the Men 138(3)
Gunplay (IV): The Hemingway Solution 141(6)
Who? Who? Who?
Who `Wrote' Paradise Lost? 147(2)
Who `Wrote' The Tragic Muse? 149(1)
Who Wrote The Odyssey? 150(3)
Who Wrote the First Western? 153(1)
Who invented the Supercomputer (in Literature)? 154(2)
Who Wrote the King James Bible? 156(5)
Name Games
Why `Bronte'? 161(4)
Adjectivals 165(2)
Etiquettery 167(4)
What's in a Name? 171(3)
What's in a Name (II)? 174(3)
What's in a Name (III)? 177(1)
What's in a Title? 178(5)
Readers Distinguished and Less So
Smart Writers, Dumb Readers 183(3)
Dumb Readers (II) 186(1)
Presidential Readers 187(3)
Presidential Readers (II) 190(3)
Prime-ministerial Readers 193(4)
Mammon and the Book Trade
Product Placement 197(2)
Product Placement (II) 199(2)
There's Life in the Old Corpse Yet 201(3)
Lies, Damn Lies, and Bestseller Lists 204(4)
What was the Most Popular Novel in the American Civil War? 208(3)
Books Go to War: Continued 211(2)
Listomania 213(2)
The Potter Effect 215(2)
Jam, Gollys, and the S-word 217(3)
Go Figure 220(5)
Wheels
WWJD? 225(2)
Platform 93/4 227(2)
Wrong-Headedness 229(1)
Celebrity Car Crash: Not a Literary Thing 230(7)
Morbid Curiosity
What Killed Anthony Trollope? 237(1)
Dying Well: Too Well 238(2)
The Wallpaper Actually did Go 240(1)
The Werther Effect 241(2)
The Baskerville Effect 243(2)
Cause of Death: George Orwell 245(1)
More Wertherisms 245(2)
Graham Greene: Wertherian 247(2)
Dying Well? Or Dead Drunk? 249(1)
Hart Crane: Death by Water (and Whisky) 250(2)
Dying Conscientiously 252(2)
What Was That He Said? 254(3)
`Good Career Move, Truman' 257(6)
Curious Connections: A Terminal Quiz
Questions 263(1)
Answers 264
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