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Autore: | Baker Thomas Nelson |
Titolo: | Sentiment & celebrity : Nathaniel Parker Willis and the trials of literary fame / / Thomas N. Baker |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
Edizione: | First edition. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 pages) |
Disciplina: | 813.4 |
818.309 | |
818.309B | |
818/.309 B | |
Soggetto topico: | Authors, American - 19th century |
Celebrities - United States | |
Authorship - History - 19th century | |
Sentimentalism in literature | |
Note generali: | Previously issued in print: 1998. |
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: | 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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | Sentiment and celebrity |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sentiment & celebrity |
ISBN: | 0-19-771617-2 |
0-19-028382-3 | |
1-280-52989-X | |
0-19-535299-8 | |
1-4294-0514-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910816692403321 |
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