Authors Inc. : literary celebrity in the modern United States, 1880-1980 /
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York:
New York University Press,
c2004
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0414/2004002301.html |
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