Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

Public Interiors

Autori

• Emrys Jones

Parametri

• 304 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Arte / Cultura
• Sulla letteratura

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This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity’s origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2018

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