Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature

Rick Honings (Autor)

Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

209 Seiten

2021 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-71888-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Introduction; Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings.- 1. A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats (1795-1821); Eric Eisner.- 2. Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Evert Jan van Leeuwen.- 3. Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1818-1889); Alexis Easley.- 4. The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819-1891); Kevin J. Hayes.- 5. The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Sandra Mayer.- 6. Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946); Rod Rosenquist.- 7. The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010); Gaston Franssen.- 8. Public and Private Posture: Zadie Smith (1975); Odile Heynders.- Bibliography.- Index.-

Erscheinungsdatum	19.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	4 Illustrations, color; 11 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 209 p. 15 illus., 4 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
Schlagworte	Memory • modernism • Reception • Romanticism • Visual Culture
ISBN-10	1-349-71888-2 / 1349718882
ISBN-13	978-1-349-71888-7 / 9781349718887
Zustand	Neuware