Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present - Hardcover

 
9789089649638: Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9089649638 ISBN 13: 9789089649638
Verlag: Routledge, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

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?

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016). In 2021, he co-edited De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Currently, he works with a research team on the NWO Vidi project Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1900. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Indische Letteren.

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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?

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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?

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Verlag
Routledge
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9089649638
ISBN 13 
9789089649638
Einband
Tapa dura
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
282
Herausgeber
Franssen Gaston, Honings Rick
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