Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism : Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands [1 ed.] 9789400603226, 9789087283087

The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption 9780231518581

Princess Diana, Jackie O, Grace Kelly—the star icon is the most talked about yet least understood persona. The object of

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Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 9781479891825

An investigation of how popular modernist writers handled their fame. An investigation of how popular modernist writer

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The Star and Celebrity Confessional 9781138879638

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Nature's Saviours : Celebrity Conservationists in the Television Age 9780203123188, 9780415519144

Today's celebrity conservationists, many of whom made their reputations through television and other visual media,

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Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity 9781442664937

This informative study calls overdue attention to the ways in which literary celebrity is the result not only of a write

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Romanticism and Childhood: The Infantilization of British Literary Culture (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism, Series Number 93) 0521768144, 9780521768146

How and why childhood became so important to such a wide range of Romantic writers has long been one of the central ques

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The Lute in the Dutch Golden Age: Musical Culture in the Netherlands ca. 1580-1670 9789048519392

Closely associated with the social elite, the lute occupied a central place in the culture of the Dutch Golden Age. In t

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Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars 9780292794870

As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon—celebrity. Begin

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Star Struck: an Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture 9780313358135, 9780313358128

Star Struck: An Encyclopedia of Celebrity Culture is neither a stern critic nor an apologist for celebrity infatuation,

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American Authors and the Literary Marketplace since 1900 9780812204537

This book examines literary authorship in the twentieth century and covers such topics as publishing, book distribution,

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