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Constructing Charisma - Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
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Constructing Charisma - Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Paperback)
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Railroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass
periodicals-the major technological advances of the 19th century
seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another,
creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social
relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon more evident than in the
relationship between celebrity and fan, leader and follower, the
famous and the unknown. By mid-century, heroes and celebrities
constituted a new and powerful social force, as innovations in
print and visual media made it possible for ordinary people to
identify with the famous; to feel they knew the hero, leader, or
"star"; to imagine that public figures belonged to their private
lives. This volume examines the origins and nature of modern mass
media and the culture of celebrity and fame they helped to create.
Crossing disciplines and national boundaries, the book focuses on
arts celebrities (Sarah Bernhardt, Byron and Liszt); charismatic
political figures (Napoleon and Wilhelm II); famous explorers
(Stanley and Brazza); and celebrated fictional characters (Cyrano
de Bergerac).
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