Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 Contributor(s): Glass, Loren (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814731597 ISBN-13: 9780814731598 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $88.11 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2004 Annotation: "A richly rewarding, insightful, and engaging study." --"American Literary Realism" "Glass provides a novel, nuanced, and sound critical perspectives on the productive interaction of seemingly opposite forces: modernism and the mass market."--"Choice" "Glass offers insightful readings of such books as Stein's "Everybody's Autobiography"(1937) and Hemingway's "Death in the Afternoon" (1932)." "A fascinating exploration of the relationship among modern authorial celebrity, the rise of the mass market, and the crisis of masculinity at the turn of the twentieth century. This crisply argued book unites sophisticated theoretical arguments about the changing shape of subjectivity in American culture with attentive literary readings and careful historical scholarship." Chronicling the emergence of literary celebrity in the late nineteenth century up through its contemporary manifestations, Glass focuses on howindividual authors themselves struggled with the conditions of mass cultural renown. Furthermore, by emphasizing the complex relation between masculinity and modernist authorship in the United States, the book provides a bracing new account of the psychosexual economy of the American profession of authorship. By combining a socio-historical approach with a rhetorical analysis of the autobiographical work in which classic American writers attempted to intervene in the formation of their public personae, Authors Inc. offers a long overdue study of one of the most important, and neglected, aspects of modern American literature. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures |
Dewey: 810.900 |
LCCN: 2004002301 |
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.96" W x 9.24" (1.07 lbs) 243 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: The first comprehensive and systematic study of literary celebrity in the twentieth-century United States, Authors Inc. focuses on the autobiographical work of Mark Twain, Jack London, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. Through these classic American authors, Loren Glass reveals the degree to which literary modernism in the United States is inseparable from the mass cultural forces it opposed. |
Contributor Bio(s): Glass, Loren: - Loren Glass is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. |