Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture
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Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : 9783319769028
ISBN-13 : 3319769022
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Book Synopsis Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture by : Emrys D. Jones

Download or read book Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture written by Emrys D. Jones and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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