Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature

Editors
Publication date 2016
ISBN
  • 9781137558671
Number of pages 248
Publisher London: Palgrave Macmillan
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract 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.
Document type Book (Editorship)
Language English
Published at http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137558671
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