Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity in the long nineteenth century
Ann R Hawkins; Maura C Ives
Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity in the long nineteenth century /Ann R Hawkins; Maura C Ives - London :Routledge ,2016 - x,280 Pages ;24 cm.
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.
A collection that 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. It considers the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it.
9781138254220
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors : 7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Literature
English literature--Women authors--Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
820.99287 HAW
Women writers and the artifacts of celebrity in the long nineteenth century /Ann R Hawkins; Maura C Ives - London :Routledge ,2016 - x,280 Pages ;24 cm.
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.
A collection that 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. It considers the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it.
9781138254220
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 Atlantic Publishers & Distributors : 7/22 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi
Literature
English literature--Women authors--Women and literature -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
820.99287 HAW
