As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenomenon-celebrity. Beginning in Hollywood with the studio-orchestrated transformation of uncredited actors into brand-name stars, celebrity also spread to writers, whose personal appearances and private lives came to fascinate readers as much as their work. Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars profiles seven American, Canadian, and British women writers-Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield-who achieved literary celebrity in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work remains popular even today. Faye Hammill investigates how the fame and commercial success of these ...
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, ther...
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for wo...
This chapter shows how the methods and approaches of Celebrity Studies throw fresh light on what aut...
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenome...
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenome...
Modern celebrity is typically associated with metropolitan centers and with the new media of radio a...
This dissertation analyzes the role of celebrity in determining the lives and literary productions o...
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, ther...
The ongoing celebritisation of society not only comprises ‘celebrity sectors’ such as entertainment ...
This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, p...
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for wo...
This paper examines three authors’ lives in relation to their response to their status as ‘star auth...
Victorian and Antebellum writers were the first literary figures to construct and perform their auth...
This paper examines three authors’ lives in relation to their response to their status as ‘star auth...
Explores Hemingway’s complex relationships with three women writers who participated in creating the...
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, ther...
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for wo...
This chapter shows how the methods and approaches of Celebrity Studies throw fresh light on what aut...
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenome...
As mass media burgeoned in the years between the first and second world wars, so did another phenome...
Modern celebrity is typically associated with metropolitan centers and with the new media of radio a...
This dissertation analyzes the role of celebrity in determining the lives and literary productions o...
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, ther...
The ongoing celebritisation of society not only comprises ‘celebrity sectors’ such as entertainment ...
This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, p...
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for wo...
This paper examines three authors’ lives in relation to their response to their status as ‘star auth...
Victorian and Antebellum writers were the first literary figures to construct and perform their auth...
This paper examines three authors’ lives in relation to their response to their status as ‘star auth...
Explores Hemingway’s complex relationships with three women writers who participated in creating the...
Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, ther...
Organised around each decade of the post war period, this book analyses novels written by and for wo...
This chapter shows how the methods and approaches of Celebrity Studies throw fresh light on what aut...