A Disciple of Whitman and Ruskin: William Harrison Riley, Transatlantic Celebrity, and the Perils of Working-Class Fandom.

This article focuses on attempts by working-class intellectual, William Harrison Riley, to act as a transatlantic bridge connecting John Ruskin and Walt Whitman, and on what this reveals about nineteenth-century celebrity culture. Despite contrasting attitudes to fame, Ruskin and Whitman both constr...

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Publicado en:Critical Survey Vol. 27; no. 3; pp. 63 - 82
Autor principal: Frost, Mark
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Berghahn Books 2015
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