Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature

216 Pages·2016·3.408 MB·English

by  Gaston Franssen, Rick Honings (eds.)

Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives
in English and American Literature
edited by
Gaston Franssen & Rick Honings
Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives
in English and American Literature

Gaston Franssen • Rick Honings
Editors
Celebrity Authorship
and Afterlives in
English and American
Literature
Editors
Gaston Franssen Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities Faculty of Humanities
University of Amsterdam Leiden University
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Leiden, The Netherlands
ISBN 978-1-137-55867-1 ISBN 978-1-137-55868-8 (eBook)
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55868-8
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cknowledgements
The editors would like to thank Alexis Easley, Eric Eisner, Kevin J. Hayes,
Odile Heynders, Evert Jan van Leeuwen, Sandra Mayer and Rod Rosenquist
for sharing their ideas and expertise with us. All flaws in this volume, of
course, are ours alone. We would also like to thank Benjamin Doyle and
Tomas René at Palgrave Macmillan for their belief in our project, Karin
Dona of Tekst & Toespraak Editors, and Nina Bresser and Sophie Chapple
of Bresser-Chapple Copy, Proofing and Translation, for their editorial sup-
port and great patience, as well as Eli ten Lohuis for her translation of our
Introduction. We have received financial support from the University of
Amsterdam, the University of Leiden and the Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research (NWO).
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1 Introduction: Starring the Author 1
Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings
2 A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats
(1795–1821) 23
Eric Eisner
3 Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) 43
Evert Jan van Leeuwen
4 Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1812–1889) 67
Alexis Easley
5 The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819–1891) 95
Kevin J. Hayes
6 The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900) 111
Sandra Mayer
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7 Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein
(1874–1946) 133
Rod Rosenquist
8 The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919–2010) 157
Gaston Franssen
9 Public and Private Posture: Zadie Smith (1975) 179
Odile Heynders
Index 201
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Alexis Easley is Professor of English Literature at the University of St. Thomas.
Her research interests include Victorian women writers, journalism and celebrity
culture. Her most recent monograph, Literary Celebrity, Gender, and Victorian
Authorship, 1850–1914, was published by the University of Delaware Press in 2011.
The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers
(co-edited with Andrew King and John Morton) was published in 2016. She also
edits Victorian Periodicals Review.
Eric Eisner is Associate Professor of English Literature at George Mason University.
He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Literary Celebrity (Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) as well as of articles on Keats, P.B. Shelley, Mary Shelley,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others. In 2011, he guest-edited Romantic Fandom,
a volume of essays collected in the Romantic Circles Praxis Series. He is currently
working on a book on Keats and contemporary American poetry.
Gaston Franssen is Assistant Professor of Literary Culture at the University of
Amsterdam. He has published on literary celebrity in the Journal of Dutch Literature
and on literary fandom in the Dutch academic journal Spiegel der Letteren. Franssen
and Honings are currently preparing a trans-European volume on literary stardom,
entitled Idolizing Authorship: Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Authorship,
1800 to Present (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, forthcoming in 2017).
Kevin J. Hayes is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Central
Oklahoma, and now lives and writes in Ohio. He has published on Edgar Allan
Poe, Thomas Jefferson and the history of American literature. His books include
Poe and the Printed Word (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) and
The Cambridge Introduction to Herman Melville (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2007).
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