Limelight : Canadian women and the rise of celebrity autobiography / Katja Lee.

By:

Lee, Katja, 1977- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Life writing seriesPublisher: Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 356 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

1771124318
9781771124300
177112430X
9781771124317

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Limelight.DDC classification:

920 23

LOC classification:

CT25 .L44 2020

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cci1icc

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Contents:

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction From Clara Morris to Clara Hughes: The Tricky Business of Being a Famous Woman -- PART ONE Contexts -- Chapter 1 The Changing Faces of Fame in Canada -- PART TWO Voices -- Chapter 2 Strictly Professional: An Age of Image Control, 1890-1930 -- Chapter 3 The Rise of the Private Life: When Offstage Moved Onstage, 1930-1980 -- Chapter 4 More Visible and Valuable Than Ever Before: Celebrity Lives in the Limelight, 1990s+ -- Coda: Is There a Future for Celebrity Autobiography in a Digital Age? -- Notes

Primary Sources by Year of Publication -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

Summary: "It's about the history and development of memoirs and autobiographies by famous Canadian women -- such as L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain -- and the roles that gender and nation have played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience."-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"It's about the history and development of memoirs and autobiographies by famous Canadian women -- such as L.M. Montgomery, Margaret Trudeau, and Shania Twain -- and the roles that gender and nation have played in the rise to fame and in writing about that experience."-- Provided by publisher.

Primary Sources by Year of Publication -- Works Cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y

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