Marketing the Author: Author Personae, Narrative Selves and Self-Fashioning, 1880-1930
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Demoor, Marysa. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Marketing the Author looks at the careers and the writings of a selection of authors writing in the period 1880-1930 (from the fairly unknown Emilia Dilke and Rosamund Watson to literary celebrities like Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf) who all impersonated identities which they had created for themselves. It argues that as a result of the socio-economic changes at the time authors had to remain in control of their public image in order to survive.
Marketing the Author looks at the careers and the writings of a selection of authors writing in the period 1880-1930 (from the fairly unknown Emilia Dilke and Rosamund Watson to literary celebrities like Henry James, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf) who all impersonated identities which they had created for themselves. It argues that as a result of the socio-economic changes at the time authors had to remain in control of their public image in order to survive.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
239
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403933294
SKU
V9781403933294
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Ref
99-15
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LAUREL BRAKE Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK EDWARD BISHOP Professor of English, University of Alberta, Canada ANNETTE R. FEDERICO Teaches English at James Madison University, Virginia, USA HILARY FRASER Geoffrey Tillotson Chair in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK MOLLY HITE Professor of English, Cornell University, USA LINDA K. HUGHES Addie ... Read more
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