Making stars : biography and celebrity in eighteenth-century Britain /

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"In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if n...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nachumi, Nora (Editor ), Straub, Kristina, 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2022]
Colección:Performing celebrity.
Temas:
1700-1799
English prose literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Celebrities > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Biography as a literary form.
Fame > History > 18th century.
Biographies as Topic.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Celebrities.
Civilization.
English prose literature.
Fame.
England > Civilization > 18th century.
England.
Great Britain.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub
  • Part I. Representing Celebrity on the Stage and the Page
  • 1. The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke / Stuart Sherman
  • 2. Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century / Semane Parsons
  • 3. Image/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire / Heather Mcpherson
  • Part II. Marketing Celebrity in the Material World
  • 4. Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity / Sören Hammerschmidt
  • 5. Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today / Kevin Bourque
  • 6. Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity / Glynis Ridley
  • Part III. Life Writing as Self-Defense
  • 7. Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland's Quest for Anonymous Celebrity / Jack Lynch
  • 8. Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication / Elaine Mcgirr
  • 9. Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore / Sarah Ailwood
  • Part IV. The Body and the Body Politic
  • 10. Creating Celebratory Memory: The Tombeaux des Princes / Anne Betty Weinshenker
  • 11. Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History / Rebecca Tierney-Hynes
  • 12. The Everyday Celebrity of "Sir" Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat / Miriam L. Wallace
  • Part V. Whose Life is It Anyway?
  • 13. A "Universally Sorrowful Sensation": National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta / Teri Doerksen
  • 14. Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy / Kirsten T. Saxton
  • 15. Extra-Illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of Celebrity / Jane Wessel
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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