Spectacular disappearances : celebrity and privacy, 1696-1801

Spectacular disappearances celebrity and privacy, 1696-1801

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fawcett, Julia H., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press 2016.
Series:Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched
Subjects:
Celebrities > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Fame > Social aspects > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Theater > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Privacy > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Great Britain > Civilization > 18th century.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009803330406719
Table of 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.

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