Making Stars : Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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Making Stars : Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

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  • 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版/ページ数 396 p.
  • 言語 ENG
  • 商品コード 9781644532645
  • DDC分類 820.9492

Full Description

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.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub
PART I
REPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE
1 The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke
Stuart Sherman
2 Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century
Semane Parsons
3 Image/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire
Heather McPherson
PART II
MARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
4 Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity
Sören Hammerschmidt
5 Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today
Kevin Bourque
6 Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity
Glynis Ridley
PART III
LIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE
7 Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland's Quest for Anonymous Celebrity
Jack Lynch
8 Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication
Elaine McGirr
9 Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Sarah Ailwood
PART IV
THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC
10 Creating Celebratory Memory: The Tombeaux des Princes
Anne Betty Weinshenker
11 Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History
Rebecca Tierney-Hynes
12 The Everyday Celebrity of "Sir" Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat
Miriam Wallace
PART V
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?
13 A "Universally Sorrowful Sensation": National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta
Teri Doerksen
14 Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy
Kirsten T. Saxton
15 Extra-illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of Celebrity
Jane Wessel
Notes on Contributors
Index

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