The invention of celebrity 1750-1850
"Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this illuminating new book cultural historian Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journ...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity
2017
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| Edición: | This English edition © Polity Press, 2017 |
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- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments Introduction - Celebrity and Modernity Chapter 1 - Voltaire in Paris "The Most Famous Man in Europe" Voltaire and Janot Chapter 2 - Society of the Spectacle The Birth of Stars: The Economics of Celebrity Scandal at the Opera "Something Idolatrous" A European Celebrity The Invention of the Fan(atic) Chapter 3 - A First Media Revolution The Visual Culture of Celebrity Public Figurines Idols and Marionettes "Heroes of the Hour" Private Lives, Public Figures Chapter 4 - From Glory to Celebrity Trumpeting Fame Conceptualizing Celebrity Celebrity "Chastisement for Merit" Chapter 5 - Loneliness of the Celebrity "The Celebrity of Misfortune" Friend Jean-Jacques Eccentricity, Exemplarity, Celebrity The Burden of Celebrity Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques The Disfiguration Chapter 6 - The Power of Celebrity A Fashion Victim? Revolutionary Popularity The President is a Great Man Sunset Island Chapter 7 - Romanticism and Celebrity Byromania Prestige and obligations Women Seduced and Public Women Virtuosos Celebrity in America Democratic Popularity and Popular Sovereignty "Celebrities of the Hour" Towards a New Age of Celebrity Conclusion Postface to the English edition Notes Illustration credits Index.
