Limelight : Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography /
At the heart of fame is the tricky business of image management. Over the last 115 years, the celebrity autobiography has emerged as a popular and useful tool for that project. In Limelight, Katja Lee examines the memoirs of famous Canadian women like L. M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, the Dionne Qui...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2020
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| Colección: | Life writing series.
Book collections on Project MUSE. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction from Clara Morris to Clara Hughes : the tricky business of being a famous woman
- part one. Contexts. The changing faces of fame in Canada
- part two. Voices. Strictly professional : an age of image control, 1890-1930
- The rise of the private life : when offstage moved onstage, 1930-1980
- More visible and valuable than ever before : celebrity lives in the limelight, 1990s+
- Coda is there a future for celebrity autobiography in a digital age?


