Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture Public Interiors /
This book provides an expansive view of celebrity's intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the l...
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Springer International Publishing,
2018.
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| Vydání: | 1st ed. 2018. |
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| ISBN: | 9783319769028 |
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- 1. Introduction: Emrys D. Jones and Victoria Joule
- 2. Nell Gwyn's Breasts and Colley Cibber's Shirts: Celebrity Actors and their Famous 'Parts': Elaine McGirr
- 3. Anne Oldfield's Domestic Interiors: Auctions, Material Culture and Celebrity: Claudine van Hensbergen
- 4. 'Peeping' and Public Intimacy in Susanna Centlivre's The Busy Body (1709): Victoria Joule
- 5. Garrick, Dying: James Harriman-Smith
- 6. Doctor Sacheverell and the Politics of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary Britain: Brian Cowan
- 7. Farcical Politics: Fielding's Public Emotion: Rebecca Tierney-Hynes
- 8. 'A Man in Love': Intimacy and Political Celebrity in the Early Eighteenth Century: Emrys D. Jones
- 9. 'The ARMS of Friendship': John Dunton's Platonic Aquisitions: Nicola Parsons
- 10. 'I make a very shining figure': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the intimate publics of authorship: Clare Brant
- 11. Foote, Fox, and the Mysterious Mrs Grieve: Print Celebrity and Imposture: Ruth Scobie
- 12. Notoriety's public interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at Ranelagh: George Rousseau
- 13. Body Double: Katherine Hepburn at Madame Tussauds: Laura Engel.