Spectacular disappearances : : celebrity and privacy, 1696-1801 / / Julia H. Fawcett.
How can people in the spotlight control their self-representations when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is familiar, but not new. Julia Fawcett examines the stages, pages, and streets of eighteenth-century London as England's first modern celebrities performed their own stran...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ann Arbor : : University of Michigan Press,, [2016] |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages) :; illustrations |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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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.