Literary Celebrity and Public Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Athens :
The University of Georgia Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: celebrity culture in the public sphere
- P.T. Barnum: commercial pleasure and the creation of a mass audience
- Walt Whitman: mediation, affect, and authority in celebrity culture
- Ralph Waldo Emerson: the impersonal in the personal public sphere
- Frederick Douglass: celebrity, privacy, and the embodied self
- Fanny Fern: celebrity's revolutionary power.


