Katja Lee

Limelight

Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography

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Produktbeschreibung

Limelight: Canadian Women and the Rise of Celebrity Autobiography examines the celebrity autobiography and how it has changed in form, function, and content over the last 115 years. Focusing on the autobiographies of famous Canadian women, it charts a history of fame in English Canada and examines the influence of gender and nation in the experience and representation of fame in an autobiography.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781771124294
• ISBN-10: 1771124296
• Artikelnr.: 58703401

Autorenporträt

Katja Lee recently completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship at Simon Fraser University and now teaches at the University of Western Australia. She has co-edited two collections, Contemporary Publics (2016) and Celebrity Cultures in Canada (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016), and is a Managing Editor of the journal Persona Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: From Clara Morris to Clara Hughes: The Tricky Business of
Being a Famous Woman
1. The Changing Faces of Fame in Canada
2. Strictly Professional: An Age of Image Control, 1890-1930
3. The Rise of the Private Life: When Offstage Moved Onstage, 1930-1980
4. More Visible and Valuable Than Ever Before: Celebrity Lives in the
Limelight, 1990s+
Coda: Is There a Future for Celebrity Autobiography in a Digital Age?