This first biography of John Erskine views him in the larger contexts of the mass culture and expanded commercialism that helped propel his fame. It also relates a life narrative that demonstrates perils of academic celebrity along a conceptual path from public intellectual to pop icon.
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Introduction: Merchant of Academe Gifted Boy of the Gilded Age The Columbia Stamp The Gown is the Town Growing Pains at a New Columbia World War I and the French Seduction A Canon for the Rest of Us Celebrity Attraction Fame and Loathing on Morningside Heights Raising Juilliard Segues and Second ActsA propos de l’auteur
Katherine Elise Chaddock is a professor in the College of Education, University of South Carolina, and the author of numerous published works on the history of American higher education. Among her previous books include: Visions and Vanities: John Andrew Rice of Black Mountain College; (with Susan Schramm) A Separate Sisterhood: Women Who Shaped Education in the Progressive Era; and (with Carolyn Matalene) Vital Signs in Charleston, Carolina Voices, and College of Charleston Voices.
Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 255 ● ISBN 9781137010780 ● Taille du fichier 5.5 MB ● Maison d’édition Palgrave Macmillan US ● Lieu New York ● Pays US ● Publié 2012 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 4992175 ● Protection contre la copie DRM sociale