Sentiment & celebrity [[electronic resource] ] : Nathaniel Parker Willis and the trials of literary fame / / Thomas N. Baker
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| Autore: |
Baker Thomas Nelson
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| Titolo: |
Sentiment & celebrity [[electronic resource] ] : Nathaniel Parker Willis and the trials of literary fame / / Thomas N. Baker
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1999 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (271 p.) |
| 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 | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sentiment & celebrity |
| ISBN: | 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.: | 9910450810503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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