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Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity in the long nineteenth century
- Title
- Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity in the long nineteenth century / edited by Ann R. Hawkins and Maura Ives.
- Publication
- Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PR115 .W68 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiv, 280 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- 1800 - 1899
- English literature > Women authors > History and criticism
- Women and literature > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- English literature > Women authors
- Women and literature
- Englisch
- Frauenliteratur
- Schriftstellerin
- Rezeption
- Starkult
- Women and literature > United States > History > 19th century
- Women authors, English > 19th century
- Authors and readers > Great Britain > History > 19th century
- Authorship > Social aspects > History > Great Britain > 19th century
- Fame > History > 19th century
- Literature and society > History > 19th century
- Women authors, American > 19th century
- Authors and readers > United States > History > 19th century
- Engelska kvinnliga författare
- Litteratur och samhälle
- Great Britain
- Großbritannien
- Storbritannien
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity / Maura Ives -- Celebrity and anonymity in the Monthly review's notices of nineteenth-century novels / Stephanie Eckroth -- "Faultless herself, as nearly as human nature can be": the construction of Jane Austen's public image, 1817-1917 / Katie Halsey -- Portrait, the beauty, and the book : celebrity and the Countess of Blessington / Ann R. Hawkins -- "A place among its more successful sisters" : Louisa May Alcott's wayward Moods / Catherine S. Blackwell -- "The summit of an author's fame" : Victorian women writers and the birthday book / Maura Ives -- "Almost idolatrous love" : Caroline Dall, Sarah Knowles Bolton, Mary C. Crawford and the case of Elizabeth Whitman / Jennifer Harris -- Women writers and celebrity news at the Fin de Siècle / Alexis Easley -- "A characteristic product of the present era" : gender and celebrity in Helen C. Black's Notable women authors of the day (1893) / Troy J. Bassett -- Presenting Alice Meynell : the book, the photograph, and the calendar / Linda H. Peterson -- Motherhood, authorship, and rivalry : sons' memoirs of the lives of Ellen Price Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Jennifer Phegley -- Commodifying the self : portraits of the artist in the novels of Marie Corelli / Lizzie White -- Pauline Johnson and celebrity in Canada : "the most unique fixture in the literary world of today" / Carole Gerson.
- ISBN
- 9780754667025
- 0754667022
- LCCN
- 2011035643
- OCLC
- ocn753912361
- 753912361
- SCSB-14533471
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library