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

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Delaware Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2022
First published:	2022
Editors:	Nora Nachumi • Kristina Straub
Contributors:	Stuart Sherman • Semane Parsons • Heather McPherson • Sören Hammerschmidt • Kevin Bourque • Glynis Ridley • Jack Lynch • Elaine McGirr
Dimensions:	235 x 156 x 38mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-64453-264-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General Promotions
LSN:	1-64453-264-6
Barcode:	9781644532645

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