| Authors Inc.: Literary Celebrity in the Modern United States, 1880-1980 Subjects: Authorship -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory etc.; Literature -- Appreciation -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Celebrities -- United States --; 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. Glass Loren : Loren Glass is Associate Professor of English at the University of Iowa. |