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Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

Public Interiors

Gebonden Engels 2018 9783319769011
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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.

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ISBN13:9783319769011
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:gebonden
Uitgever:Springer International Publishing

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<p>1. Introduction:&nbsp;Emrys D. Jones and Victoria Joule.- 2.&nbsp;Nell Gwyn’s Breasts and Colley Cibber’s Shirts: Celebrity Actors and their Famous ‘Parts’:&nbsp;Elaine McGirr.- 3.&nbsp;Anne Oldfield’s Domestic Interiors: Auctions, Material Culture and Celebrity: Claudine van Hensbergen.- 4.&nbsp;‘Peeping’ and Public Intimacy in Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body (1709):&nbsp;Victoria Joule.- 5.&nbsp;Garrick, Dying:&nbsp;James Harriman-Smith.- 6.&nbsp;Doctor Sacheverell and the Politics of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary Britain:&nbsp;Brian Cowan.- 7.&nbsp;Farcical Politics: Fielding’s Public Emotion:&nbsp;Rebecca Tierney-Hynes.- 8. ‘A Man in Love’: Intimacy and Political Celebrity in the Early Eighteenth Century:&nbsp;Emrys D. Jones.- 9.&nbsp;‘The ARMS of Friendship’: John Dunton’s Platonic Aquisitions:&nbsp;Nicola Parsons.- 10.&nbsp;‘I make a very shining figure’: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the intimate publics of authorship:&nbsp;Clare Brant.- 11.&nbsp;Foote, Fox, and the Mysterious Mrs Grieve: Print Celebrity and Imposture:&nbsp;Ruth Scobie.- 12.&nbsp;Notoriety’s public interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at Ranelagh:&nbsp;George Rousseau.- 13.&nbsp;Body Double: Katherine Hepburn at Madame Tussauds:&nbsp;Laura Engel.</p><p></p>

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