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Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature

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  • © 2016

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Editors:
  1. Gaston Franssen

    1. Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Rick Honings

    1. Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

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  • Examines key figures from British and American literature, from Salinger to Wilde
  • Has a broad temporal scope, from the eighteenth century to the twentieth century
  • Represents a strong contribution to celebrity studies, a truly interdisciplinary area of research

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: Starring the Author

    • Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings
    Pages 1-21

  3. A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats (1795–1821)

    • Eric Eisner
    Pages 23-42

  4. Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849)

    • Evert Jan van Leeuwen
    Pages 43-66

  5. Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1812–1889)

    • Alexis Easley
    Pages 67-93

  6. The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    • Kevin J. Hayes
    Pages 95-109

  7. The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    • Sandra Mayer
    Pages 111-132

  8. Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)

    • Rod Rosenquist
    Pages 133-155

  9. The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919–2010)

    • Gaston Franssen
    Pages 157-177

  10. Public and Private Posture: Zadie Smith (1975)

    • Odile Heynders
    Pages 179-199

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 201-209
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About this book

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.

Reviews

“This book makes a clarifying and compelling case for the connections between authorial celebrity and authorial afterlives, two categories generally kept separate. Encompassing a diverse range of canonical and non-canonical authors, the essays collected here all make strong contributions to the vibrant field of literary celebrity studies.” (Guy Davidson, University of Wollongong, Australia)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Gaston Franssen

  • Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Rick Honings

About the editors

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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