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Brown, Peter, -- 1784-1863 -- Fame and glory of England vindicated --- England -- Social life and customs

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Though these days, our celebrity culture tends to revolve around movie stars and pop musicians, there have been plenty of celebrity authors over the years and around the world. This volume brings together a number of contributors to look at how and why certain writers have attained celebrity throughout history. How were their images as celebrities constructed by themselves and in complicity with their fans? And how did that process and its effects differ from country to country and era to era?

Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Literature: authors --- Écrivains --- Célébrités --- Littérature anglaise --- Culture populaire --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire. --- Histoire et critique. --- Authorship --- Fame --- Celebrity --- Renown --- Glory --- Authoring (Authorship) --- Writing (Authorship) --- Literature --- Social aspects --- History. --- literary celebrity, self-fashioning, comparative literature, fandom, afterlife.

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The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse's renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras póstumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700. In this study of a polyphonic, transatlantic volume, the didactic framework of early modern fame is pushed to its limits as panegyrists inscribe the nun into an evolving world-view that could trade in the fictions of the saintly exemplar, the Tenth Muse or a New World treasure, but could not preserve a woman's renown on the grounds of authorship. Only by making her legible could she vie for the promise of posthumous fame. In flushing out the machinations of Sor Juana's role as agent of her own celebrity as well as the negotiations of her contemporaries, this book opens new lines of inquiry in the study of early modern fame and print culture and the role of writers, panegyrists and editors as cultural agents in the transatlantic literary relationship between Mexico and Spain. The Fame of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz traces the meteoric trajectory of the Mexican Tenth Muse's renown and studies how her worldly celebrity was altered posthumously by elegists in her Fama y obras póstumas [Fame and Posthumous Works] of 1700. In this study of a polyphonic, transatlantic volume, the didactic framework of early modern fame is pushed to its limits as panegyrists inscribe the nun into an evolving world-view that could trade in the fictions of the saintly exemplar, the Tenth Muse or a New World treasure, but could not preserve a woman's renown on the grounds of authorship. Only by making her legible could she vie for the promise of posthumous fame. In flushing out the machinations of Sor Juana's role as agent of her own celebrity as well as the negotiations of her contemporaries, this book opens new lines of inquiry in the study of early modern fame and print culture and the role of writers, panegyrists and editors as cultural agents in the transatlantic literary relationship between Mexico and Spain.

Social and cultural history. --- Gender studies: women and girls. --- Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800. --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 17th Century * --- LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors. --- HISTORY / Women * --- Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700. --- Literary studies: c. 1500 to c. 1800. --- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, fame, early modern women, posterity, posthumous works. --- Cruz, de la, Juana Inés --- Mexican literature --- History and criticism. --- Juana Inés de la Cruz, --- Criticism and interpretation.