Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 /

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How can the modern individual control his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching? This question is a familiar one amid the the twenty-first century's architecture of 24-hour newsrooms, chat rooms and interrogation rooms, but this book traces this question back to t...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Fawcett, Julia H. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Privatsphäre
Selbstdarstellung
Historische Persönlichkeit
Theater.
Privacy.
Fame > Social aspects.
English literature.
Civilization.
Celebrities.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Vie privee > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Theâtre > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Litterature anglaise > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Celebrites > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Privacy > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Fame > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Celebrities > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Grossbritannien
Great Britain.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation > 18e siecle.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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