Idolizing Authorship

ISBN 10: 1041181213 / ISBN 13: 9781041181217

Published by Routledge, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Idolizing Authorship
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1041181213
• ISBN 13: 9781041181217
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

About this title

Synopsis

Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over the years and around the world. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. How were their images as celebrities constructed by themselves and in complicity with their fans? And how did that process and its effects differ from country to country and era to era?

About the Author

Dr. Gaston Franssen (1977) is assistant professor of Literary Culture at the University of Amsterdam.
Rick Honings is Scaliger Professor Special Collections at Leiden University and a specialist in nineteenth-century Dutch and Dutch Indies literature. In 2018 he published Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism: Literary Celebrity in the Netherlands, the international edition of his monograph De dichter als idool: Literaire roem in de negentiende eeuw (2016). In 2021, he co-edited De postkoloniale spiegel: De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen. Currently, he works with a research team on the NWO Vidi project Voicing the Colony: Travelers in the Dutch East Indies, 1800-1900. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Indische Letteren.