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Spectacular disappearances : celebrity and privacy, 1696-1801 / Julia H. Fawcett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fawcett, Julia H., author.
- Series:
- Open Access e-Books
- Knowledge Unlatched
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Celebrities--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Celebrities.
- Fame--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Fame.
- English literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Theater--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Theater.
- Privacy--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Privacy.
- Great Britain--Civilization--18th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- How can the modern individual control his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching? The question is not a new one. Julia Fawcett traces it back to 18th-century London - and to the strange and spectacular self-representations performed there by England's first modern celebrities.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness
- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender
- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character
- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor
- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression
- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY
- Description based on information from the publisher.
- ISBN:
- 9780472900619
- 0472900617
- 9780472121809
- 0472121804
- OCLC:
- 1048734297
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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