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Sentiment & celebrity : Nathaniel Parker Willis and the trials of literary fame / Thomas N. Baker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baker, Thomas Nelson, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker, 1806-1867.
- Willis, Nathaniel Parker.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Celebrities--United States--Biography.
- Celebrities.
- Authorship--History--19th century.
- Authorship.
- Sentimentalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (271 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Once named as the most talked-about author in America, the widely admired, if controversial, master of the sentimental appeal, poet and magazinist Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867) was a pioneer in the modern business of celebrity.
- Contents:
- Contents; Chronology; ONE: Celebrity Comes of Age; TWO: Beauty's Apostle; THREE: American Pelham; FOUR: The Spy Who Came to Dinner; FIVE: The Coming Aristocracy; SIX: Affairs of Honor; SEVEN: Trials of Celebrity; EIGHT: Outrageous Fictions; NINE: Echoes; Notes; Sources and Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-771617-2
- 0-19-028382-3
- 1-280-52989-X
- 0-19-535299-8
- 1-4294-0514-7
- OCLC:
- 476012065
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