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 ActsОб авторе
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.
язык английский ● Формат PDF ● страницы 255 ● ISBN 9781137010780 ● Размер файла 5.5 MB ● издатель Palgrave Macmillan US ● город New York ● Страна US ● опубликованный 2012 ● Загружаемые 24 месяцы ● валюта EUR ● Код товара 4992175 ● Защита от копирования Социальный DRM