Idolizing Authorship
Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
Published on 2. February 2017
Book
Hardback
282 pages
978-90-8964-963-8 (ISBN)
Description
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?
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Illustrations
Illustrations: 0 black and white; 30 full color.
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
593 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-8964-963-8 (9789089649638)
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Gaston Franssen | Rick Honings
Idolizing Authorship
Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
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approx. 12/2025
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Gaston Franssen | Rick Honings
Idolizing Authorship
Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
E-Book
10/2025
Routledge
€60.49
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Gaston Franssen | Rick Honings
Idolizing Authorship
Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
E-Book
10/2025
Routledge
€60.49
Available for download
Gaston Franssen | Rick Honings
Idolizing Authorship
Literary Celebrity and the Construction of Identity, 1800 to the Present
E-Book
01/2017
Amsterdam University Press
€236.50
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Persons
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.
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.
Content
Idolizing Authorship: An Introduction Gaston Franssen and Rick Honings Part 1: The Rise of Literary Celebrity 1. The Olympian Writer: Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) Silke Hoffmann 2. The Dutch Byron: Nicolaas Beets (1814-1903) Rick Honings 3. Enemy of Society, Hero of the Nation: Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Suze van der Poll Part 2: The Golden Age of Literary Celebrity 4. From Bard to Brand: Holger Drachmann (1846-1908) Henk van der Liet 5. In the Future, When I Will Be More of a Celebrity: Louis Couperus (1863-1923) Mary Kemperink 6. A la Recherche de la Gloire: Marcel Proust (1871-1922) Sjef Houppermans 7. The National Skeleton: Ezra Pound (1885-1972) Peter Liebregts Part 3: The Popularization of Literary Celebrity 8. Playing God: Harry Mulisch (1927-2010) Sander Bax 9. Literary Stardom and Heavenly Gifts: Haruki Murakami (1949) Gaston Franssen 10. Sincere e-Self-Fashioning: Dmitrii Vodennikov (1968) Ellen Rutten 11. The Fame and Blame of an Intellectual Goth: Sofi Oksanen (1977) Sanna Lehtonen.