Making Stars Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain |
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| Editor:
| Nachumi, Nora
Straub, Kristina |
| Contribution by:
| Sherman, Stuart
Parsons, Semane
McPherson, Heather
Hammerschmidt, Sören
Bourque, Kevin
Ridley, Glynis
Lynch, Jack
McGirr, Elaine
Ailwood, Sarah
Weinshenker, Anne Betty
Tierney-Hynes, Rebecca
Wallace, Miriam L.
Doerksen, Teri
Saxton, Kirsten Teresa
Wessel, Jane |
| Series title: | Performing Celebrity Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-64453-266-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2022 |
| Publisher: | University of Delaware Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $250.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionIn 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.