Matthew Lecznar assesses the fashion politics of Adichie's fiction and public discourse Matthew Lecznar (University of Sussex) identifies the politics...
Hemingway vs Gellhorn: A Famous D-Day Rivalry
Kate McLoughlin offers an intriguing case study of the gendering of writerly fame. Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford) talks about the textual war ...
Between Morality and the Marketplace: Literary Celebrity and the Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Movement
Simon Morgan discusses the tensions within the transatlantic anti-slavery movement between literary celebrity and moral responsibility. Simon Morgan (...
The Rhetoric of Fame: Persuading the People in Early Modern England
Kate De Rycker demonstrates that the social role of 16th-century English writers was becoming increasingly affected by the developing concept of celeb...
Disraeli's 'Spectre of Unsatisfied Ambition': Literary Celebrity in/and Political Office
Sandra Mayer explores Disraeli's dual commitment to art and action against the background of Victorian celebrity culture. Benjamin Disraeli's papers i...
Authorship, Politics, Celebrity: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
In this roundtable discussion, Caroline Davis, Olivier Driessens, and Peter D McDonald reflect on literature as a mode of public intervention. The mem...