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TY - CHAP
T1 - Celebrity
T2 - On the Different Publics of World Authorship
AU - Braun, Rebecca
PY - 2020/10/1
Y1 - 2020/10/1
N2 - This chapter shows how the methods and approaches of Celebrity Studies throw fresh light on what authors and literature can do in the world. In particular, the divide between elite and popular fiction turns out to be illusory once we start paying attention to the way authors and their works actually move around. Combining celebrity theory with a practical analysis of the networks sustaining literature allows us to examine afresh the ways and degrees to which authors accrue ‘attention capital’ and from which social groupings, and why. Working through examples taken from the early modern period to the present day, this chapter provides a model approach not only for seeing beyond the individual author to witness the complex networks of agents involved in the process of authorship—from editors to translators, agents, and readers, and so on—but also for placing the question of agency once again at the heart of that process.
AB - This chapter shows how the methods and approaches of Celebrity Studies throw fresh light on what authors and literature can do in the world. In particular, the divide between elite and popular fiction turns out to be illusory once we start paying attention to the way authors and their works actually move around. Combining celebrity theory with a practical analysis of the networks sustaining literature allows us to examine afresh the ways and degrees to which authors accrue ‘attention capital’ and from which social groupings, and why. Working through examples taken from the early modern period to the present day, this chapter provides a model approach not only for seeing beyond the individual author to witness the complex networks of agents involved in the process of authorship—from editors to translators, agents, and readers, and so on—but also for placing the question of agency once again at the heart of that process.
KW - authorship
KW - World Literature
KW - celebrity
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198819653.013.3
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198819653.013.3
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9780198819653
T3 - Twenty-First-Century Approaches to Literature
SP - 30
EP - 44
BT - World Authorship
A2 - Boes, Tobias
A2 - Braun, Rebecca
A2 - Spiers, Emily
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -