Intermedial Authorship
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19th-Century France
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Authorship
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Celebrity Culture
comparative literature
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forthcoming
Intermediality
Literature and Media
nineteenth century
Photography
Portraiture
Product details
- ISBN 9781399568876
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 31 Oct 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book traces the nineteenth-century origins and rapid spread of the photographic author portrait. Innovatively exploring the combined socio-cultural, media- and photo-historical, and literary critical dynamics that shaped the trans- and intermedial production, uses, and reception of author portraits as exemplars of modern celebrity, it provides new perspectives on authorship as fundamentally shaped by photography. Based on extensive archival research, the book shows how photographic portraits of French authors were not mere visual appendages to their published works but significantly impacted on the (self-) presentation and reception of writers as cultural celebrities, through the unique affordances of the new medium.
Kathrin Yacavone researches and teaches in the Department of Media Studies at the University of Marburg, Germany. She is a media studies scholar and photography theorist with a particular interest in cross-media phenomena, including in photography and literature. She is the author of Benjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography (Continuum, 2012), co-editor of Die Fotografie und ihre Institutionen (Photography’s Institutionalization) (Reimer, 2024), and editor of five special journal issues on topics such as collaborative authorship, the history and aesthetics of photoalbums, contemporary photography in France, and nineteenth-century portraiture. Her current research project concerns the cultural impact of generative AI in relation to the aesthetic category of style.
