{"product_id":"the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship-nineteenth-century-print-culture-and-antislavery-9780231209717","title":"The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, consumable form of literature in the period. Antislavery print culture could function as a pop culture, leveraging cultural myths about gender and authorship through print forms that connected readers with writers: printed collections of author signatures, descriptions of writers' homes, autobiography, biography, and travel writing. \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Celebrity Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e traces surprising relations among figures and across shared forms in the period: What do antislavery forms and figures tell us about literary celebrity and the networks of transatlantic print culture? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSarah Danielle Allison illuminates the collective creation of celebrity by tracing unexpected connections within this anarchic nineteenth-century literary marketplace. Bringing together book history with more recent computational approaches, \u003ci\u003eThe Rise of Celebrity Authorship\u003c\/i\u003e shifts focus from the conventional literary work of major writers to the breadth of print forms circulating around them. Allison considers a variety of texts adjacent to the novel, including Edgar Allan Poe's satire of autograph collecting, antislavery gift books, and a Southern travelogue by the Swedish writer Frederika Bremer. She draws striking parallels between two starkly different 1858 texts: Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Brontë, which sought to unearth the reality behind \u003ci\u003eJane Eyre\u003c\/i\u003e, and Josiah Henson's autobiography, which circulated as the life of the \"original Uncle Tom.\" A rich account of the competing and complementary forces that shape images of authors, this book reveals the collaborative work of literary production and celebrity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSarah Danielle Allison is an associate professor of English and Hutchinson Distinguished Professor at Loyola University New Orleans. She is the author of\u003ci\u003e Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian Moralizing\u003c\/i\u003e (2018).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51580221227282,"sku":"9780231209717","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d5d4826c-cdb0-4fa7-8be5-6094461c33c5.jpg?v=1756211639","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship-nineteenth-century-print-culture-and-antislavery-9780231209717","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}