Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Performing Celebrity)

By: Stuart Sherman and Semane Parsons and Heather McPherson and Sören Hammerschmidt and Kevin Bourque and Glynis Ridley and Jack Lynch and Elaine McGirr and Sarah Ailwood and Anne Betty Weinshenker and Rebecca Tierney-Hynes and Miriam L. Wallace and Teri Doerksen and Kirsten Teresa Saxton and Jane Wessel

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781644532669
Related ISBNs:: 9781644532645, 9781644532652
Publisher:: University of Delaware Press
Date of Addition:: 07/15/22
Copyrighted By:: the University of Delaware
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Edited by:: Nora Nachumi
Edited by:: Kristina Straub