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Constructing charisma : celebrity, fame, and power in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Edward Berenson and Eva Giloi.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mass media--History--19th century.
- Mass media.
- Europe--History--1789-1900.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Railroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass periodicals-the major technological advances of the 19th century seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another, creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon more evident than in the relationship between celebrity and fan, leader and follower, the famous and the unknown. By mid-century, heroes and celebrities constituted a new and powerful social force, as innovations in print and visual media made it possible for ordinary people to identify with the fa
- Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Introduction; Part I - Constructing Charisma; Chapter 1 - Charisma and the Making of Imperial Heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914; Chapter 2 - ""So Writes the Hand that Swings the Sword"": Autograph Hunting and Royal Charisma in the German Empire, 1861-1888; Chapter 3 - The Workings of Royal Celebrity: Wilhelm II as Media Emperor; Part II - Celebrity as Performance; Chapter 4 - From the Top: Liszt's Aristocratic Airs; Chapter 5 - Celebrity Gifting: Mallarmé and the Poetics of Fame
- Chapter 6 - Rethinking Female Celebrity: The Eccentric Star of Nineteenth-Century FrancePart III - The Politics of Fame; Chapter 7 - Byron, Death, and the Afterlife; Chapter 8 - The Historical Actor; Chapter 9 - Celebrity, Patriotism, and Sarah Bernhardt; Chapter 10 - Heroes, Celebrity, and the Theater in Fin-de-Siècle France; Conclusion - Secular Anointings: Fame, Celebrity, and Charisma in the First Century of Mass Culture; Notes; Notes on Contributors; Selected Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612662478
- 9780857458391
- 0857458396
- 9781282662476
- 1282662473
- 9781845459772
- 1845459776
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