Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Ives, Maura; Hawkins, Ann R.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement. This collection traces the unique experiences of women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a wide range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books, calendars and gossip columns, to consider the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it. How did authors like Jane Austen, the Countess of Blessington, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Meynell, and Marie Corelli negotiate the increasing demands for public revelation of the private self? How did gender shape the posthumous participation of women writers such as Jane Austen, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Christina Rossetti in celebrity culture? These and other important questions related to the treatment of women in celebrity genres and media, and the strategies women writers used to control their public images, are taken up in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth and early twentieth century women writers achieved popular, critical, and commercial success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351871792
• Artikelnr.: 49354596

Autorenporträt

Ann R. Hawkins is Professor of Bibliography in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, and Maura Ives is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface; Introduction: women writers and the artifacts of celebrity
Maura Ives; Celebrity and anonymity in the Monthly Review's notices of 19th-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; The 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; Works cited; Index.