The rise of celebrity authorship : nineteenth-century print culture and antislavery /
Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, consumable form of literature in the period. Antislavery print culture could function as a pop culture, leveraging cultural myths about gender...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2025].
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| Summary: | Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, consumable form of literature in the period. Antislavery print culture could function as a pop culture, leveraging cultural myths about gender and authorship through print forms that connected readers with writers, printed collections of author signatures, descriptions of writers' homes, autobiography, biography and travel writing. The Rise of Celebrity Authorship traces surprising relations among figures and across shared forms in the period. What do antislavery forms and figures tell us about literary celebrity and the networks of transatlantic print culture? Sarah Danielle Allison illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within this anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace. Bringing together book history with more recent computational approaches, The Rise of Celebrity Authorship shifts focus from the conventional literary work of major writers to the breadth of print forms circulating around them. |
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| Physical Description: | 250 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231209700 0231209703 9780231209717 0231209711 |