Overview
- 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)
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About this book
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
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature
Editors: Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55868-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55867-1Published: 17 October 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71888-7Published: 21 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55868-8Published: 21 September 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 209
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: British and Irish Literature, North American Literature, Contemporary Literature, Fiction