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Sentiment & Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame

Sentiment & Celebrity: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the Trials of Literary Fame

Baker, Thomas N.

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Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0195120736
ISBN13: 9780195120738
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 31 1998
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.89 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.26
Language: English
Sentiment and Celebrity tells the story of a man the New York Times once called the most talked-about author in America. A 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. By charting the shape and thrust of the various controversies that surrounded Willis, this book shows how the cultural and commercial impulses that fostered the development of antebellum America's love affair with fame and fashion drew power and sustenance from the concurrent allure of genteel cultivation and sentiment.

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