Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism

Zusammenfassung

Although there has always been a fascination for famous people, the invention of modern celebrity culture goes back to the nineteenth century. During Romanticism the position of the author changed, but, with the phenomenon of the fan and associated fandom coming into existence, also that of the public with the phenomenon of the fan and associated fandom coming into existence. In

Star Authors in the Age of Romanticism

Dutch literary celebrity culture is analysed and embedded in the international discourse on this subject. Internationally, scholarly attention has over the last years been given to literary celebrity. This book supplies the Dutch dynamic to the international prevailing scholarly discourse on the development of literary celebrity by focusing on five famous Dutch authors from the nineteenth century: Willem Bilderdijk, Hendrik Tollens, Nicolaas Beets, François HaverSchmidt (alias Piet Paaltjens) and Eduard Douwes Dekker (better known as Multatuli).

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Bibliographische Angaben

Auflage

1/2018

Copyrightjahr

2018

ISBN-Print

978-90-8728-308-7

ISBN-Online

978-94-006-0322-6

Verlag

Leiden University Press, Leiden

Sprache

Englisch

Seiten

284

Produkttyp

Monographie