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Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
Gaston Franssen
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Description for Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
Hardcover. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. Editor(s): Honings, Rick; Franssen, Gaston. Num Pages: 282 pages, 30 full color. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; DSA; DSBF; DSBH; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 241 x 23. Weight in Grams: 578.
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over the years and around the world. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. How were their images as celebrities constructed by themselves and in complicity with their fans? And how did that process and its effects differ from country to country and era to era?
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over the years and around the world. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. How were their images as celebrities constructed by themselves and in complicity with their fans? And how did that process and its effects differ from country to country and era to era?
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
282
Place of Publication
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ISBN
9789089649638
SKU
V9789089649638
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99-50
About Gaston Franssen
Dr. Gaston Franssen (1977) is assistant professor of Literary Culture at the University of Amsterdam. Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands, the international edition of his monograph De dichter ... Read more
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