TY - GEN digital ID - 131560268 TI - Celebrity authorship and afterlives in English and American literature AU - Franssen, Gaston AU - Honings, Rick PY - 2016 SN - 9781137558688 9781137558671 PB - London Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Fiction KW - Sociology of literature KW - American literature KW - English literature KW - fantasy KW - literatuur KW - Amerikaanse cultuur KW - Engelse literatuur KW - Wilde, Oscar KW - Salinger, J.D. KW - Keats, John KW - Smith, Zadie KW - Cook, Eliza KW - Stein, Gertrude KW - Poe, Edgar Allan KW - Melville, Herman KW - anno 1900-1999 KW - anno 2000-2099 KW - Great Britain KW - Ireland KW - United States of America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131560268 AB - 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. ER -