Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: celebrity culture in the public sphere
  • P.T. Barnum: commercial pleasure and the creation of a mass audience
  • Walt Whitman: mediation, affect, and authority in celebrity culture
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson: the impersonal in the personal public sphere
  • Frederick Douglass: celebrity, privacy, and the embodied self
  • Fanny Fern: celebrity's revolutionary power.