The rise of celebrity authorship : nineteenth-century print culture and antislavery / Sarah Danielle Allison.

Author/creator Allison, Sarah author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Columbia University Press, [2025]
Description250 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Slavery in literature.
Antislavery movements in literature.
American literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Authors and readers--United States. --History. --19th century.
Authorship--Social aspects. --United States. --History. --19th century.
English literature--19th century. --History and criticism.
Authors and readers--Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Authorship--Social aspects. --Great Britain. --History. --19th century.
Fame--History. --19th century.

Portion of title Nineteenth-century print culture and antislavery
Abstract "Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, consumable form of literature in the period. Antislavery print culture could function as a pop culture, leveraging cultural myths about gender and authorship through print forms that connected readers with writers: printed collections of author signatures, descriptions of writers' homes, autobiography, biography, and travel writing. The Rise of Celebrity Authorship traces surprising relations among figures and across shared forms in the period: What do antislavery forms and figures tell us about literary celebrity and the networks of transatlantic print culture? Sarah Danielle Allison illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within this anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace. Bringing together book history with more recent computational approaches, The Rise of Celebrity Authorship shifts focus from the conventional literary work of major writers to the breadth of print forms circulating around them"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN9780231209717
ISBN9780231209700 hardcover.
ISBN0231209703 hardcover
ISBN0231209711 paperback
ISBNelectronic book

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