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Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature
Rick Honings
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Description for Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature
Hardcover. Editor(s): Franssen, Gaston. Num Pages: 221 pages, 11 black & white illustrations, 4 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBF; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 218 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith.
Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon.
This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors’ crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith.
Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
209
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137558671
SKU
V9781137558671
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99-15
About Rick Honings
Gaston Franssen is Assistant Professor of Literary Culture at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Rick Honings is Assistant Professor of Dutch Studies at Leiden University, Netherlands. They are the co-editors of Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to Present (2016), a trans-European volume on literary celebrity authors.
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