{"product_id":"the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship-nineteenth-century-print-culture-and-antislavery-paperback","title":"The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Danielle Allison\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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).\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 264\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 19, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45520421388390,"sku":"9780231209717","price":63.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/BQibvSjrsP9780231209717.webp?v=1776458826","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship-nineteenth-century-print-culture-and-antislavery-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}