Anmerkungen:
In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web
Beschreibung:
An investigation of how popular modernist writers handled their fame
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Celebrity Theory and Authorial Autobiography -- Literary Property and the Right to Privacy -- Modernism, Mass Culture, Masculinity -- 1. Modern Consciousness and Public Subjectivity -- Pronouns, Patronyms, Publicity -- (Re)Collecting the Past -- Third-Person Masculine -- 2. Trademark Twain -- The Republic of Letters -- BeTwain Two Deaths -- Incorporating the Author -- 3. Legitimating London -- Plagiarism, Primitivism, Publicity -- Literary Value and Class Consciousness -- Literature and Legitimacy -- 4. Gertrude Stein’s Money -- The Gender of Genius -- Funny Money -- The Death of Genius -- 5. Being Ernest -- The Author versus the Audience (Misogyny) -- The Author versus Himself (Homophobia) -- The Author versus the Biographers (Death) -- The Author Reborn? (Androgyny) -- 6. The Norman Conquest -- Declaration: First among Equals -- Engagement: The Third Man -- Defeat: The Second Sex -- Executing the Author -- Coda -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author