Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 / edited by Anaïs Pédron [and nine others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pédron, Anaïs, editor.

Siviter, Clare, editor.

Series:

Performing celebrity.

Performing Celebrity Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Celebrities.

Fame.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newark, DE : University of Delaware Press, [2021]

Summary:

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing in dialogue the growing fields of celebrity studies in the two countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti’s seminal work, The Invention of Celebrity, translated into English in 2017. With contributions from a diverse range of scholarly cultures, the volume has a firmly interdisciplinary scope over the time period 1750 to 1850, which was an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. Bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, the volume employs a firmly interdisciplinary scope to explore an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. The organization of the collection allows for new readings of the similarities and differences in the understanding of celebrity in Britain and France. Consequently, the volume builds upon the questions that are currently at the heart of celebrity studies.

Contents:

Cover

Series Page

Title

Copyright

Contents

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction

Theorizing Celebrity

1. "Immortality in This World": Reconfiguring Celebrity and Monument in the Romantic Period

2. The Scholar as Celebrity: Anquetil-Duperron's

3. The Physiognomies of Virtuosi in Paris, 1830-1848

Representing Celebrity

4. "To Perdition": Politicians, Players, and the Press

5. Clairon's Strategies to Achieve Celebrity and Glory

6. Celebrity-Thou Art Translated! Corinne in England

7. Celebrity Across Borders: The Chevalier d'Eon

Inheriting Celebrity

8. "Knowing My Family": Dynastic Recognitionin Eighteenth-Century Celebrity Culture

9. Princes of the Public Sphere: Visibility, Performance, and Princely Political Activism, 1771-1774

10. Ancient Parallels to Eighteenth-Century Concepts of Celebrity

11. The Celebrity, Reputation, and Glory of the Empire and Restoration France through the Lens of Adèle de Boigne's Memoirs

Bibliography

Index

About the Contributors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781644532140

164453214X

OCLC:

1457641372