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Making Stars : Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain /
"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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Newark :
University of Delaware Press,
[2022]
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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? | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a "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 not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, celebrity emerged as public fascination for the private lives of publicly visible individuals. Biography and celebrity are mutually constitutive, but in complex and varied ways that this volume unpacks. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
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