Celebrity authorship and afterlives in English and American literature. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings, editors.
• Editors: Franssen, Gaston; Honings, Rick
• Contents: Acknowledgements; Contents; Notes on the Contributors; List of Figures; 1: Introduction: Starring the Author; Celebrity & co.; The curious case of literary celebrity authorship; Afterlife and celebrity criticism; Charting celebrity authorship; Notes; References; 2: A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats (1795-1821); Friendly circles; A test of one's love; Conclusion: our minds towards each other; Notes; References; 3: Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Fifteen months of fame; Constructing the posthumous Poe legend; Hollywood's Poe pastiche Poe's failure as a source of inspirationConclusion: the Poe industry; Notes; References; 4: Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1812-1889); Rise to fame; Poetic icon(oclast); Transgressive cross-marketing; Conclusion: 'A diluted Mrs. Hemans'; Notes; References; 5: The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819-1891); Mr. Omoo's daguerreotype fidelity; Moby-Dick and the mug shot; Conclusion: a cold mist between the reader and the author; Notes; References; 6: The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Wildean (after)lives: performing and appropriating celebrity The long shadow of the celebrity author: Thomas Kilroy's Wildean bioplaysConclusion: a fruitful co-authorship; Notes; References; 7: Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946); Stein's literary production and journalistic reproduction; 'There are two Steins': celebrity reproduction and duplicate images; Conclusion: Stein's afterlives; Notes; References; 8: The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010); The birth of a literary recluse; Solving the Salinger puzzle; What we talk about when we talk about Salinger; Conclusion: the piano player in the closet; Notes
• Publisher Details: London : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809; Literature; Authors, American -- Criticism and interpretation; Authors, English -- Criticism and interpretation; Fame; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary; Authors, American; Authors, English; Fame; Literary Criticism -- American -- General; Fiction -- General; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: from c 1900; Fiction & related items; British literature; Fiction; Literary Criticism -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; USA; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137558688; 1137558687
• Related ISBNs: 9781137558671
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 26, 2016).
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