Literary celebrity and public life in the nineteenth-century united states
Auteur :
O'Neill, Bonnie Carr
Éditeur :
University of Georgia Press
ISBN :
9780820364865
Date de publication :
1 mai 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Through extended readings of the works of P. T. Barnum, Walt Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, and Fanny Fern, Bonnie Carr O’Neill shows how celebrity culture authorizes audiences to evaluate public figures on personal terms and in so doing reallocates moral, intellectual, and affective authority and widens the public sphere.