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UNINA9910816692403321 |
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Autore |
Baker Thomas Nelson |
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Titolo |
Sentiment & celebrity : Nathaniel Parker Willis and the trials of literary fame / / Thomas N. Baker |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-771617-2 |
0-19-028382-3 |
1-280-52989-X |
0-19-535299-8 |
1-4294-0514-7 |
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Edizione |
[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (271 pages) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online. |
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Disciplina |
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813.4 |
818.309 |
818.309B |
818/.309 B |
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Soggetti |
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Authors, American - 19th century |
Celebrities - United States |
Authorship - History - 19th century |
Sentimentalism in literature |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previously issued in print: 1998. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-242) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Once named as the most talked-about author in America, the 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. |
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