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Making Stars
Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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2022
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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 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.
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NORA NACHUMI is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and coordinator of the minor in Women’s Studies at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University in New York, NY. She is the author of Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage and has published essays and book chapters on female novelists, playwrights, pedagogy and film adaptation.
KRISTINA STRAUB is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology and Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth Century Britain, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth-century theatre, sexuality, and gender. She co-curated “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and Literary Celebrity” at the Folger Shakespeare Library with Janine Barchas.
KRISTINA STRAUB is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology and Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth Century Britain, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth-century theatre, sexuality, and gender. She co-curated “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and Literary Celebrity” at the Folger Shakespeare Library with Janine Barchas.
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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INTRODUCTION
1 - PART I REPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE
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1 THE PERIODICAL AND THE PRISM Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke
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2 EMBODIED STAGE BIOGRAPHY AND CELEBRITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
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3 IMAGE/COUNTERIMAGE Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire
57 - PART II MARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
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4 MODULAR POPE Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity
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5 BIOGRAPHICAL FICTIONS Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today
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6 ART AND MERCHANDISE, FOLLOWERS AND FRAGILITY Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity
148 - PART III LIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE
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7 NEGLECTED GENIUS William Henry Ireland’s Quest for Anonymous Celebrity
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8 INTERPRETING A LIFE Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication
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9 LEGAL STARDOM Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
217 - PART IV THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC
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10 CREATING CELEBRATORY MEMORY The Tombeaux des Princes
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11 EMBODIED POLITICS Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History
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12 THE EVERYDAY CELEBRITY OF “SIR” JEFFREY DUNSTAN, MAYOR OF GARRAT
277 - PART V WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?
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13 A “UNIVERSALLY SORROWFUL SENSATION” National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta
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14 SPECTACULAR MATERIALS The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy
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15 EXTRA-ILLUSTRATION, PARTICIPATORY BIOGRAPHY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF CELEBRITY
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
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Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
celebrity studies; animal studies; disability studies; eighteenth-century studies; eighteenth-century Britain; deep eighteenth century; literary studies; British literary studies; English literature; theatre and performance studies; theatre history; theatre studies; visual arts; biography; celebrity; eighteenth-century biography; eighteenth-century celebrity; celebrity culture; celebrity performance; celebrity and performance; celebrity biography; celebrity and theatre; celebrity power; the public sphere; public opinion
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