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Subjects
American Authors, American literature, Appreciation, Authors and readers, Authorship, Autobiography, Biography, Canon (Literature), Celebrities, History, History and criticism, Literature, Literature and society, Social aspects of Authorship, Theory, American literature, history and criticism, 20th century, Authors, american, Authors, biography, Social aspectsPlaces
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Authors Inc.: literary celebrity in the modern United States, 1880-1980
2004, New York University Press
in English
0814731597 9780814731598
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Table of Contents
Authorial personality in the American field of cultural production
Celebrity theory and authorial autobiography
Literary property and the right to privacy
Modernism, mass culture, masculinity
Modern consciousness and public subjectivity
Pronouns, patronyms, publicity
(Re)collecting the past
Third person masculine
Trademark twain
The republic of letters
Betwain two deaths
Incorporating the author
Legitimating London
Plagiarism, primitivism, publicity
Literary value and class consciousness
Literature and legitimacy
Gertrude Stein's money
The gender of genius
Funny money
The death of genius
Being ernest
The author vs. the audience (misogyny)
The author vs. himself (homophobia)
The author vs. the biographer (death)
The author reborn? (androgyny)
The Norman Conquest
Declaration : first among equals
Engagement : the third man
Defeat: the second sex
Executing the author.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-232) and index.
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