Constructing charisma : celebrity, fame, and power in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berenson, Edward, 1949-

Giloi, Eva, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--History--19th century.

Mass media.

History.

Europe--History--1789-1900.

Europe.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.

Contents:

Part I: Constructing charisma. Charisma and the making of imperial heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914 / Edward Berenson ; "So writes the hand that swings the sword" : autograph hunting and royal charisma in the German empire, 1861-1888 / Eva Giloi ; The workings of royal celebrity : Wilhelm II as media emperor / Martin Kohlrausch

Part II: Celebrity as performance. From the top : Liszt's aristocratic airs / Dana Gooley ; Celebrity gifting : Mallarmé and the poetics of fame / Emily Apter ; Rethinking female celebrity : the eccentric star of nineteenth-century France / Mary Louise Roberts

Part III: The politics of fame. Byron, death, and the afterlife / Stephen Minta ; The historical actor / Peter Fritzsche ; Celebrity, patriotism, and Sarah Bernhardt / Kenneth E. Silver ; Heroes, celebrity, and the theater in fin-de-siècle France : Cyrano de Bergerac / Venita Datta

Conclusion. Secular anointings : fame, celebrity, and charisma in the first century of mass culture / Leo Braudy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781845456948

1845456947

OCLC:

555673125