Romanticism and celebrity culture, 1750-1850 / edited by Tom Mole.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mole, Tom, 1976-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fame--History--18th century.

Fame.

Fame--History--19th century.

Celebrities--Great Britain--History.

Celebrities.

Fame--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Fame--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Fame--Social aspects.

History.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2009]

Contents:

Part I Apparatus 19

1 Celebrity and the spectacle of nation / Jason Goldsmith 21

2 Celebrity, politics and the rhetoric of genius / David Higgins 41

3 The physiognomy of the lion: encountering literary celebrity in the nineteenth century / Richard Salmon 60

part II Sites 79

4 Rara avis or fozy turnip: Rossini as celebrity in 1820s London / Benjamin Walton 81

5 Daniel Mendoza and sporting celebrity: a case study / Peter M. Briggs 103

6 Siddons rediviva: death, memory and theatrical afterlife / Heather McPherson 120

Part III Gender 141

7 Trials of the dandy: George Brummell's scandalous celebrity / Clara Tuite 143

8 Celebrity violence in the careers of Savage, Pope and Johnson / Linda Zionkowski 168

9 Mary Robinson's conflicted celebrity / Tom Mole 186

Part IV Audience 207

10 Patron or patronised?: 'fans' and the eighteenth-century English stage / Cheryl Wanko 209

11 Byron, commonplacing and early fan culture / Corin Throsby 227

12 Ann Hatton's celebrity pursuits / Judith Pascoe 245.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-282) and index.

ISBN:

9780521884778

0521884772

OCLC:

297147070