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TY - JOUR
T1 - The celebrity of anonymity and the anonymity of celebrity
T2 - picture identification and nineteenth-century British authorship
AU - Elliott, Kamilla
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Celebrity Studies on 26/10/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/19392397.2016.1233768
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - This article examines how the spaces between the words and images of various forms of picture identification (portraits, cartes de visite, and early cinema) navigated the space between anonymity and identification to construct British writers as celebrities during the long nineteenth century. Literary authors in that period did not become celebrities by words alone, but through intersemiotic relations between words and images. These relations varied across technologies and ideologies, sometimes collaborating, sometimes vying for dominance, and sometimes contradicting each other. These relations complicate and challenge late twentieth-century theories of authorship as well as illuminating nineteenth-century dynamics.
AB - This article examines how the spaces between the words and images of various forms of picture identification (portraits, cartes de visite, and early cinema) navigated the space between anonymity and identification to construct British writers as celebrities during the long nineteenth century. Literary authors in that period did not become celebrities by words alone, but through intersemiotic relations between words and images. These relations varied across technologies and ideologies, sometimes collaborating, sometimes vying for dominance, and sometimes contradicting each other. These relations complicate and challenge late twentieth-century theories of authorship as well as illuminating nineteenth-century dynamics.
KW - authorship
KW - celebrity
KW - picture identification
KW - intersemiotic relations
KW - portraiture
KW - early cinema
U2 - 10.1080/19392397.2016.1233768
DO - 10.1080/19392397.2016.1233768
M3 - Journal article
VL - 7
SP - 526
EP - 544
JO - Celebrity Studies
JF - Celebrity Studies
SN - 1939-2397
IS - 4
ER -