Making Stars : : Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain / / ed. by Kristina Straub, Nora Nachumi.
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 mor...
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Place / Publishing House: | Newark : : University of Delaware Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
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505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t CONTENTS -- |t ILLUSTRATIONS -- |t ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- |t INTRODUCTION -- |t PART I REPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE -- |t 1 THE PERIODICAL AND THE PRISM Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke -- |t 2 EMBODIED STAGE BIOGRAPHY AND CELEBRITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY -- |t 3 IMAGE/COUNTERIMAGE Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire -- |t PART II MARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD -- |t 4 MODULAR POPE Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity -- |t 5 BIOGRAPHICAL FICTIONS Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today -- |t 6 ART AND MERCHANDISE, FOLLOWERS AND FRAGILITY Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity -- |t PART III LIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE -- |t 7 NEGLECTED GENIUS William Henry Ireland’s Quest for Anonymous Celebrity -- |t 8 INTERPRETING A LIFE Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication -- |t 9 LEGAL STARDOM Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore -- |t PART IV THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC -- |t 10 CREATING CELEBRATORY MEMORY The Tombeaux des Princes -- |t 11 EMBODIED POLITICS Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History -- |t 12 THE EVERYDAY CELEBRITY OF “SIR” JEFFREY DUNSTAN, MAYOR OF GARRAT -- |t PART V WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? -- |t 13 A “UNIVERSALLY SORROWFUL SENSATION” National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta -- |t 14 SPECTACULAR MATERIALS The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy -- |t 15 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATION, PARTICIPATORY BIOGRAPHY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CELEBRITY -- |t NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- |t INDEX |
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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. | ||
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588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) | |
650 | 0 | |a Biography as a literary form. | |
650 | 0 | |a Celebrities |z Great Britain |x History |y 18th century. | |
650 | 0 | |a English prose literature |y 18th century |x History and criticism. | |
650 | 0 | |a Fame |x History |y 18th century. | |
650 | 7 | |a LITERARY CRITICISM / General. |2 bisacsh | |
653 | |a biography, celebrity, fame, celebrity culture, eighteenth century, 18th century, 1700s, literature, writing, Britain, Great Britain, UK, England, culture, media, popular culture, pop culture, public life, notoriety. | ||
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