Celebrity Authorship and Afterlives in English and American Literature

By Rick Honings

Introduction; Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings.- 1. A Friendly Return of the Author: John Keats (1795-1821); Eric Eisner.- 2. Hero of Horror: Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849); Evert Jan van Leeuwen.- 3. Victorian Iconoclast: Eliza Cook (1818-1889); Alexis Easley.- 4. The Daguerreotype Devil: Herman Melville (1819-1891); Kevin J. Hayes.- 5. The Art of Creating a Great Sensation: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900); Sandra Mayer.- 6. Production and Reproduction: Gertrude Stein (1874-1946); Rod Rosenquist.- 7. The Silence of the Celebrity: J.D. Salinger (1919-2010); Gaston Franssen.- 8. Public and Private Posture: Zadie Smith (1975); Odile Heynders.- Bibliography.- Index.-

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137558679
• ISBN13: 9781137558671
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.7"