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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /

Fawcett theorizes over-expression as the unique quality that allows celebrities to meet their spectators' demands for disclosure without giving themselves away. Like a spotlight so brilliant it is blinding, these exaggerated self-representations suggest a new way of understanding key aspects of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fawcett, Julia H. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness
  • The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender
  • The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character
  • The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor
  • The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression
  • Coda: overexpression and its legacy.