{"product_id":"the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship-sarah-danielle-allison-9780231209700","title":"The Rise of Celebrity Authorship: Nineteenth-Century Print Culture and Antislavery","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarah Danielle Allison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231209703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231209700\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/19\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Sarah Danielle Allison","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46962485821695,"sku":"9780231209700","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f53950d7-3652-4cf6-bc2c-9c308ba91ba7.jpg?v=1750651590","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship-sarah-danielle-allison-9780231209700","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}