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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784714703321

Autore

Baker Thomas Nelson

Titolo

Sentiment & celebrity [[electronic resource] ] : Nathaniel Parker Willis and the trials of literary fame / / Thomas N. Baker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999

ISBN

0-19-771617-2

0-19-028382-3

1-280-52989-X

0-19-535299-8

1-4294-0514-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (271 p.)

Disciplina

813.4

818.309

818.309B

818/.309 B

Soggetti

Authors, American - 19th century

Celebrities - United States

Authorship - History - 19th century

Sentimentalism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Chronology; ONE: Celebrity Comes of Age; TWO: Beauty's Apostle; THREE: American Pelham; FOUR: The Spy Who Came to Dinner; FIVE: The Coming Aristocracy; SIX: Affairs of Honor; SEVEN: Trials of Celebrity; EIGHT: Outrageous Fictions; NINE: Echoes; Notes; Sources and Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This volume tells the story of a man the ""New York Times"" once called ""the most talked-about author in America."" A widely admired, if controversial, master of the sentimental appeal, poet and ""magazinist"" Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) was a pioneer in the modern business of celebrity.