Ranked #1

Texts, Talks and Tailoring: Adichie and her Fashion Politics
Texts, Talks and Tailoring: Adichie and her Fashion Politics
Matthew Lecznar assesses the fashion politics of Adichie's fiction and public discourse Matthew Lecznar (University of S... Read more
3 Apr 2016
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23mins
Ranked #2

Hemingway vs Gellhorn: A Famous D-Day Rivalry
Hemingway vs Gellhorn: A Famous D-Day Rivalry
Kate McLoughlin offers an intriguing case study of the gendering of writerly fame. Kate McLoughlin (University of Oxford... Read more
3 Apr 2016
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23mins
Ranked #3

Between Morality and the Marketplace: Literary Celebrity and the Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Movement
Between Morality and the Marketplace: Literary Celebrity and the Transatlantic Anti-Slavery Movement
Simon Morgan discusses the tensions within the transatlantic anti-slavery movement between literary celebrity and moral ... Read more
3 Apr 2016
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26mins
Ranked #4

The Rhetoric of Fame: Persuading the People in Early Modern England
The Rhetoric of Fame: Persuading the People in Early Modern England
Kate De Rycker demonstrates that the social role of 16th-century English writers was becoming increasingly affected by t... Read more
3 Apr 2016
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27mins
Ranked #5

Disraeli's 'Spectre of Unsatisfied Ambition': Literary Celebrity in/and Political Office
Disraeli's 'Spectre of Unsatisfied Ambition': Literary Celebrity in/and Political Office
Sandra Mayer explores Disraeli's dual commitment to art and action against the background of Victorian celebrity culture... Read more
2 Apr 2016
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32mins
Ranked #6

Authorship, Politics, Celebrity: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
Authorship, Politics, Celebrity: Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives
In this roundtable discussion, Caroline Davis, Olivier Driessens, and Peter D McDonald reflect on literature as a mode o... Read more
2 Apr 2016
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36mins