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Reading literary and cinematic events between and beyond American and Persian literatures, this book questions the dominant geography of the East-West divide, which charts the global circulation of texts as World Literature. Beyond the limits of national literary historiography, and neocolonial cartography of world literary discourse, the minor character Parsee Fedallah in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) is a messenger who travels from the margins of the American literature canon to his Persian literary counterparts in contemporary Iranian fiction and film, above all, the rural woman Mergan in Mahmoud Dowlatabadi's novel Missing Soluch (1980). In contention with Eurocentric treatments of world literatures, and in recognition of efforts to recast the worldliness of American and Persian literatures, this book maintains that aesthetic properties are embedded in their local histories and formative geographies. .

Comparative literature --- American literature --- Literature --- Asian literature --- postkolonialisme --- literatuur --- wereldliteratuur --- Dowlatabadi, Mahmoud --- Melville, Herman --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- Comparative literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Literature. --- Comparative Literature. --- Nineteenth-Century Literature. --- World Literature.

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This book maps the history of literary celebrity from the early nineteenth century to the present, paying special attention to the authors' crafting of their writerly self as well as the afterlife of their public image. Case studies are John Keats, Edgar Allan Poe, Eliza Cook, Herman Melville, Oscar Wilde, Gertrude Stein, J.D. Salinger and Zadie Smith. Literary celebrity is part and parcel of modern literary culture, yet it continues to raise intriguing questions about the nature of authorship, writerly fame and the tension between authorial self-fashioning and public appropriation. This volume provides unique insights into the phenomenon.

Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- English literature --- fantasy --- literatuur --- Amerikaanse cultuur --- Engelse literatuur --- Wilde, Oscar --- Salinger, J.D. --- Keats, John --- Smith, Zadie --- Cook, Eliza --- Stein, Gertrude --- Poe, Edgar Allan --- Melville, Herman --- anno 1900-1999 --- anno 2000-2099 --- Great Britain --- Ireland --- United States of America --- European literature. --- America --- Literature, Modern --- Fiction. --- European Literature. --- North American Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- Fiction Literature. --- Literatures.