On strong opinions: celebrity authors in the contemporary agora

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Notes

1. For an account of the making of Pinter’s reputation, see Billington (2007).

2. On the interplay of authorial agency and industry and media appropriation within the framework of celebrity culture, see, York (2013).

3. For further discussion on the formal intricacies of Diary of a Bad Year and their bearing on questions of celebrity, see McDonald (2010), Attwell (2010) and Geertsema (2011).

4. On the Nobel Prize as an institution of cultural consecration and intellectual fetishisation, see Braun (2011).

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Peter D. McDonald

Peter D. McDonald is Professor of English and Related Literature, and Tutorial Fellow at St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford, UK. His research interests include the socio-political space of literary production (c. 1880–present); literature and the law since 1800; literary institutions and questions of the book; and ideas of the intercultural.