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Categorically Famous

Author : Guy Davidson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503609200
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Categorically Famous written by Guy Davidson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sustained study of the relations between literary celebrity and queer sexuality, Categorically Famous looks at the careers of three celebrity writers—James Baldwin, Susan Sontag, and Gore Vidal—in relation to the gay and lesbian liberation movement of the 1960s. While none of these writers "came out" in our current sense, all contributed, through their public images and their writing, to a greater openness toward homosexuality that was an important precondition of liberation. Their fame was crucial, for instance, to the growing conception of homosexuals as an oppressed minority rather than as individuals with a psychological problem. Challenging scholarly orthodoxies, Guy Davidson urges us to rethink the usual opposition to liberation and to gay and lesbian visibility within queer studies as well as standard definitions of celebrity. The conventional ban on openly discussing the homosexuality of public figures meant that media reporting at the time did not focus on his protagonists' private lives. At the same time, the careers of these "semi-visible" gay celebrities should be understood as a crucial halfway point between the era of the open secret and the present-day post-liberation era in which queer people, celebrities very much included, are enjoined to come out.

Star Authors

Author : Joe Moran
Publisher : Pluto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780745315195
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Star Authors written by Joe Moran and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-02-20 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, authors are as likely to be seen on television talk shows or magazine covers as in the more traditional settings of literary festivals or book signings. Is this literary celebrity just another result of ‘dumbing down’? Yet another example of the mass media turning everything into entertainment? Or is it a much more unstable, complex phenomenon? And what does the American experience tell us about the future of British literary celebrity?In Star Authors, Joe Moran shows how publishers, the media and authors themselves create and disseminate literary celebrity. He looks at such famous contemporary authors as Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, John Updike, Philip Roth, Kathy Acker, Nicholson Baker, Paul Auster and Jay McInerney. Through an examination of their own work, biographical information, media representations and promotional material, Moran illustrates the nature of modern literary celebrity. He argues that authors actively negotiate their own celebrity rather than simply having it imposed upon them – from reclusive authors such as Salinger and Pynchon, famed for their very lack of public engagement, to media-friendly authors such as Updike and McInerney. Star Authors analyses literary celebrity in the context of the historical links between literature, advertising and publicity in America; the economics of literary production; and the cultural capital involved in the marketing and consumption of books and authors.

Historical and Literary Celebrities. Being Biographical Sketches Selected from Chambers's Papers for the People

Author : William and Robert Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Historical and Literary Celebrities. Being Biographical Sketches Selected from Chambers's Papers for the People written by William and Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity

Author : Jonathan Goldman
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292723393
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity written by Jonathan Goldman and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phenomenon of celebrity burst upon the world scene about a century ago, as movies and modern media brought exceptional, larger-than-life personalities before the masses. During the same era, modernist authors were creating works that defined high culture in our society and set aesthetics apart from the middle- and low-brow culture in which celebrity supposedly resides. To challenge this ingrained dichotomy between modernism and celebrity, Jonathan Goldman offers a provocative new reading of early twentieth-century culture and the formal experiments that constitute modernist literature's unmistakable legacy. He argues that the literary innovations of the modernists are indeed best understood as a participant in the popular phenomenon of celebrity. Presenting a persuasive argument as well as a chronicle of modernism's and celebrity's shared history, Modernism Is the Literature of Celebrity begins by unraveling the uncanny syncretism between Oscar Wilde's writings and his public life. Goldman explains that Wilde, in shaping his instantly identifiable public image, provided a model for both literary and celebrity cultures in the decades that followed. In subsequent chapters, Goldman traces this lineage through two luminaries of the modernist canon, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, before turning to the cinema of mega-star Charlie Chaplin. He investigates how celebrity and modernism intertwine in the work of two less obvious modernist subjects, Jean Rhys and John Dos Passos. Turning previous criticism on its head, Goldman demonstrates that the authorial self-fashioning particular to modernism and generated by modernist technique helps create celebrity as we now know it.

HISTORICAL & LITERARY CELEBRIT

Author : William 1800-1883 Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781363196654
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (966 download)

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Download or read book HISTORICAL & LITERARY CELEBRIT written by William 1800-1883 Chambers and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Authors Inc.

Author : Loren Glass
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814731597
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book Authors Inc. written by Loren Glass and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation of how popular modernist writers handled their fame.

Historical and Literary Celebrities

Author : William Chambers
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382316293
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Historical and Literary Celebrities written by William Chambers and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

A Short History of Celebrity

Author : Fred Inglis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400834392
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Short History of Celebrity written by Fred Inglis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of celebrity from Byron to Beckham Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life—and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories of figures whose lives mark important moments in the history of celebrity, this book explains how fame has changed over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Starting with the first modern celebrities in mid-eighteenth-century London, including Samuel Johnson and the Prince Regent, the book traces the changing nature of celebrity and celebrities through the age of the Romantic hero, the European fin de siècle, and the Gilded Age in New York and Chicago. In the twentieth century, the book covers the Jazz Age, the rise of political celebrities such as Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, and the democratization of celebrity in the postwar decades, as actors, rock stars, and sports heroes became the leading celebrities. Arguing that celebrity is a mirror reflecting some of the worst as well as some of the best aspects of modern history itself, Inglis considers how the lives of the rich and famous provide not only entertainment but also social cohesion and, like morality plays, examples of what—and what not—to do. This book will interest anyone who is curious about the history that lies behind one of the great preoccupations of our lives. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions.

Historical and Literary Celebrities, Selected from Chambers's Papers for the People

Author : Ltd Chambers W and R
Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781345816440
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Historical and Literary Celebrities, Selected from Chambers's Papers for the People written by Ltd Chambers W and R and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-02 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Historical and Literary Celebrities

Author : William Chambers
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780484634946
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Historical and Literary Celebrities written by William Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-24 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Historical and Literary Celebrities: Being Biographical Sketches Selected From Chamber's Paper for the People France was at this time a prey to all the horrors of civil war, as well as to the dangers of a foreign invasion. The principal cities Of the Republic had revolted against the central authority Of Paris and the bloody domina tion Of the Jacobins, and among the rest Marseilles was distinguished in the great federalist movement. But the reduction Of Lyons, and the ter rible vengeance inﬂicted on it, restored the supremacy of the redoubtable Committee Of Public Safety. Many thousands Of the inhabitants of Mar seilles ﬂed in terror on the approach of the Jacobin forces, and sought protection in Toulon, which had not only cast Off the yoke Of the Convem tion, but called in the aid of the British and Spanish ﬂeets to uphold the desperate cause Of royalty. In this general ﬂight, however, the Buona partes did not participate, since they in truth belonged to the triumphant faction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Historical and Literary Celebrities. Being Biographical Sketches Selected from Chambers's Papers for the People

Author : William and Robert Chambers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Historical and Literary Celebrities. Being Biographical Sketches Selected from Chambers's Papers for the People written by William and Robert Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Historical and literary celebrities, selected from Chambers's papers for the people

Author : Chambers W. and R., ltd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
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Download or read book Historical and literary celebrities, selected from Chambers's papers for the people written by Chambers W. and R., ltd and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Drama of Celebrity

Author : Sharon Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210187
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Drama of Celebrity written by Sharon Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do so many people care so much about celebrities? Who decides who gets to be a star? What are the privileges and pleasures of fandom? Do celebrities ever deserve the outsized attention they receive? In this fascinating and deeply researched book, Sharon Marcus challenges everything you thought you knew about our obsession with fame. Icons are not merely famous for being famous; the media alone cannot make or break stars; fans are not simply passive dupes. Instead, journalists, the public, and celebrities themselves all compete, passionately and expertly, to shape the stories we tell about celebrities and fans. The result: a high-stakes drama as endless as it is unpredictable. Drawing on scrapbooks, personal diaries, and vintage fan mail, Marcus traces celebrity culture back to its nineteenth-century roots, when people the world over found themselves captivated by celebrity chefs, bad-boy poets, and actors such as the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), as famous in her day as the Beatles in theirs. Known in her youth for sleeping in a coffin, hailed in maturity as a woman of genius, Bernhardt became a global superstar thanks to savvy engagement with her era's most innovative media and technologies: the popular press, commercial photography, and speedy new forms of travel. Whether you love celebrity culture or hate it, The Drama of Celebrity will change how you think about one of the most important phenomena of modern times.

Literary Celebrity in Canada

Author : Lorraine York
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487513135
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Literary Celebrity in Canada written by Lorraine York and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended study of the dynamics of celebrity in the field of Canadian literature. Building on the argument that celebrity is a phenomenon firmly embraced by mainstream culture, Lorraine York examines it in relation to various tensions and conflicts within the literary community and beyond. Using as examples three contemporary literary celebrities, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Carol Shields, and four earlier popular writers, Pauline Johnson, Stephen Leacock, Mazo de la Roche, and L.M. Montgomery, York demonstrates that individual authors respond differently to fame in ways that can be contradictory and complex. She casts doubt on the notion of a specifically Canadian response to fame. Depending on the public interpretation of a particular writer's life and work, different tensions arise in negotiating literary celebrity. Privacy versus publicity; swift success versus laborious apprenticeship; national versus international association, or ownership of the celebrity - no single version of celebrity applies to all. Citizenship, however, is a remarkably consistent site of tension for stars, literary or otherwise. Like citizenship, celebrity marks an uneasy space wherein the single, special individual and the group demographic both meet and separate. Literary Celebrity in Canada explores that space, drawing on current theories of celebrity and questioning their tendency to view fame as an empty phenomenon. This study is an innovative attempt to understand the psychology of literary stardom and will influence future research on contemporary literature and popular culture.

Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century

Author : Brenda R. Weber
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113477219X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Women and Literary Celebrity in the Nineteenth Century written by Brenda R. Weber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on representations of women's literary celebrity in nineteenth-century biographies, autobiographical accounts, periodicals, and fiction, Brenda R. Weber examines the transatlantic cultural politics of visibility in relation to gender, sex, and the body. Looking both at discursive patterns and specific Anglo-American texts that foreground the figure of the successful woman writer, Weber argues that authors such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Fanny Fern, Mary Cholmondeley, Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Robins, Eliza Potter, and Elizabeth Keckley helped create an intelligible category of the famous writer that used celebrity as a leveraging tool for altering perceptions about femininity and female identity. Doing so, Weber demonstrates, involved an intricate gender/sex negotiation that had ramifications for what it meant to be public, professional, intelligent, and extraordinary. Weber's persuasive account elucidates how Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë served simultaneously to support claims for Brontë's genius and to diminish Brontë's body in compensation for the magnitude of those claims, thus serving as a touchstone for later representations of women's literary genius and celebrity. Fanny Fern, for example, adapts Gaskell's maneuvers on behalf of Charlotte Brontë to portray the weak woman's body becoming strong as it is made visible through and celebrated within the literary marketplace. Throughout her study, Weber analyzes the complex codes connected to transatlantic formations of gender/sex, the body, and literary celebrity as women authors proactively resisted an intense backlash against their own success.

The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture

Author : Juliet John
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191082104
Total Pages : 813 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture written by Juliet John and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-14 with total page 813 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture is a major contribution to the dynamic field of Victorian studies. This collection of 37 original chapters by leading international Victorian scholars offers new approaches to familiar themes including science, religion, and gender, and gives space to newer and emerging topics including old age, fair play, and economics. Structured around three broad sections (Ways of Being: Identity and Ideology, Ways of Understanding: Knowledge and Belief, and Ways of Communicating: Print and Other Cultures), the volume is sub-divided into nine sub-sections each with its own 'lead' essay: on subjectivity, politics, gender and sexuality, place and race, religion, science, material and mass culture, aesthetics and visual culture, and theatrical culture. The collection, like today's Victorian studies, is thoroughly interdisciplinary and yet its substantial Introduction explores a concern which is evident both implicitly and explicitly in the volume's essays: that is, the nature and status of 'literary' culture and the literary from the Victorian period to the present. The diverse and wide-ranging essays present original scholarship framed accessibly for a mixed readership of advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and established scholars.

Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914

Author : Alexis Easley
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611490170
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian Authorship, 1850–1914 written by Alexis Easley and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines literary celebrity in Britain from 1850 to 1914 with chapters focused on a variety of Victorian authors, including Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, and Octavia Hill. Through lively analysis of rare cultural materials, Easley demonstrates the crucial role of the celebrity author in the formation of British national identity. As Victorians toured the homes and haunts of famous writers, they developed a sense of shared national heritage. At the same time, by reading sensational accounts of writers' lives, they were able to reconsider conventional gender roles and domestic arrangements. Women writers capitalized on celebrity media as a way of furthering their own careers and retelling British history on their own terms. Easley demonstrates how the trope of the literary celebrity was utilized for other purposes as well, including the professionalization of medicine, the development of the open space movement, and the formation of the literary canon.