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Nom de plume a (secret) history of pseudonyms

"Exploring fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial imposters across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame...Highly accessible and engaging, these provocative stories reveal the complex motives of writers who harbored secret identities -- sometimes playfully, sometimes with terrible anquish and tragic consequences. Part detective story, part exposé, part literary history, Nom de Plume is an absorbing psychological meditation on identity and creativity" -- p. [4] of cover.

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  • ""Exploring fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial imposters across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame...Highly accessible and engaging, these provocative stories reveal the complex motives of writers who harbored secret identities -- sometimes playfully, sometimes with terrible anquish and tragic consequences. Part detective story, part exposé, part literary history, Nom de Plume is an absorbing psychological meditation on identity and creativity" -- p. [4] of cover."@en
  • "Discusses writers throughout history who hoarded secret identities-- sometimes playfully, and sometimes with tragic consequences--including Mark Twain, George Eliot, and Lewis Carroll."@en
  • "Discusses writers throughout history who hoarded secret identities-- sometimes playfully, and sometimes with tragic consequences--including Mark Twain, George Eliot, and Lewis Carroll."
  • "What's in a name' In our "look at me" era, everyone's a brand. Privacy now seems a quaint relic, and self-effacement is a thing of the past. Yet, as Nom de Plume reminds us, this was not always the case. Exploring the fascinating stories of more than a dozen authorial impostors across several centuries and cultures, Carmela Ciuraru plumbs the creative process and the darker, often crippling aspects of fame. Biographies have chronicled the lives of pseudonymous authors such as Mark Twain, Isak Dinesen, and George Eliot, but never before have the stories behind many noms de plume been collected into a single volume. These are narratives of secrecy, obsession, modesty, scandal, defiance, and shame: Only through the protective guise of Lewis Carroll could a shy, half-deaf Victorian mathematician at Oxford feel free to let his imagination run wild. The "three weird sisters" (as they were called by the poet Ted Hughes) from Yorkshire'the Brontes'produced instant bestsellers that transformed them into literary icons, yet they wrote under the cloak of male authorship. Bored by her aristocratic milieu, a cigar-smoking, cross-dressing baroness rejected the rules of propriety by having sexual liaisons with men and women alike, publishing novels and plays under the name George Sand. Grounded by research yet highly accessible and engaging, these provocative, astonishing stories reveal the complex motives of writers who harbored secret identities'sometimes playfully, sometimes with terrible anguish and tragic consequences. A wide-ranging examination of pseudonyms both familiar and obscure, Nom de Plume is part detective story, part exposE, part literary history, and an absorbing psychological meditation on identity and creativity."@en

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  • "Biographie"
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  • "Nom de plume : a (secret) history of pseudonyms"@en
  • "Nom de plume : a (secret) history of pseudonyms"

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