Authorship, Activism and Celebrity: Art and Action in Global Literature

＂Explores the relationship between literature, politics, and celebrity in global cultural contexts from the 18th century to the present＂--

Sandra Mayer is a literary and cultural historian based at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, working on the intersections of literary celebrity, activism and life-writing.
Ruth Scobie is a scholar of eighteenth-century literature and colonialism. She is the author of Celebrity Culture and the Myth of Oceania in Britain 1770-1823 (2019).