Introduction: art and action: authorship, politics and celebrity

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Acknowledgements

This Forum issue has grown out of a one-day symposium entitled ‘Art and Action: The Intersections of Literary Celebrity and Politics’, which took place on 5 March 2016 at The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities and was kindly supported by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).

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Notes

1. Olivier Driessens defines ‘celebrity capital’ as ‘recognizability, or as accumulated media visibility that results from recurrent media representations’ (Driessens 2013, p. 552).

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Funding

This work was kindly supported by the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung - FWF) Austria [grant number J3576-G23].

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Sandra Mayer

Sandra Mayer is a lecturer in English Literature and Culture at the University of Vienna and a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing at Wolfson College, University of Oxford. She is currently working on a monograph that focuses on the intersections of authorship, literary celebrity and politics in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain.