Description
| Product ID: | 9781644532645 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Making Stars |
| Subtitle: | Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain |
| Authors: | Author: Kristina Straub, Nora Nachumi |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary companions, book reviews and guides, European history, Popular culture, Literary companions, book reviews & guides, British & Irish history, Popular culture |
| Description: | In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in this volume interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Contributors present a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that celebrity culture was more pervasive, diverse and egalitarian than previously supposed. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Delaware Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Delaware Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-07-15 |
