Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980

by Loren Glass

Book Overview

The first comprehensive and systematic study of literary celebrity in the twentieth-century United States, Authors Inc. focuses on the autobiographical work of Mark Twain, Jack London, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Norman Mailer. Through these classic American authors, Loren Glass reveals the degree to which literary modernism in the United States is inseparable from the mass cultural forces it opposed.
Chronicling the emergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814731600
• ISBN13: 9780814731604
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 243 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"