"A richly rewarding, insightful, and engaging study."
--"American Literary Realism"
"Glass provides a novel, nuanced, and sound critical
perspectives on the productive interaction of seemingly opposite
forces: modernism and the mass market."--"Choice"
"Glass offers insightful readings of such books as Stein's
"Everybody's Autobiography"(1937) and Hemingway's "Death in the
Afternoon" (1932)."
--"The Journal of American History"
"A fascinating exploration of the relationship among modern
authorial celebrity, the rise of the mass market, and the crisis of
masculinity at the turn of the twentieth century. This crisply
argued book unites sophisticated theoretical arguments about the
changing shape of subjectivity in American culture with attentive
literary readings and careful historical scholarship."
--Janice Radway, Duke University
"Provocatively and deftly tackles the question of literary
celebrity in modern America. A smart and combelling book that has
broken through the silence on literary celebrity, and it will serve
as the foundation for other inquiries into this complex
phenomenon."
--"The Hemingway Review"
The first comprehensive and systematic study of literary
celebrity in the twentieth-century United States, Authors Inc.
focuses on the autobiographical work of Mark Twain, Jack London,
Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. Through these
classic American authors, Loren Glass reveals the degree to which
literary modernism in the United States is inseparable from the
mass cultural forces it opposed.
Chronicling the emergence of literary celebrity in the late
nineteenth century up through its contemporary manifestations,
Glass focuseson how individual authors themselves struggled with
the conditions of mass cultural renown. Furthermore, by emphasizing
the complex relation between masculinity and modernist authorship
in the United States, the book provides a bracing new account of
the psychosexual economy of the American profession of
authorship.
By combining a socio-historical approach with a rhetorical
analysis of the autobiographical work in which classic American
writers attempted to intervene in the formation of their public
personae, Authors Inc. offers a long overdue study of one of the
most important, and neglected, aspects of modern American
literature.
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