Tabla de Contenidos: “…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…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: the actor -- Against loss -- The chronology of Garrick -- Theatrical time -- Celebrating performance -- Black Garrick versus Richard III -- Aphra Behn and the memory of Othello -- Becoming Richard, becoming Othello -- Garrick, ascendant -- Hamlet, David Garrick, and Laurence Sterne -- Garrick and the immortality of the stage -- Theatrical Tristram -- Garrick's autopsy, "Yorick's" skull -- Retelling The winter's tale -- The return of Leontes -- "Perdita" Robinson and the burden of the past -- Reanimating Lady Macbeth -- Siddons and the memory of Garrick -- The merchant of Venice and memorial debts -- "Shakespeare's" Shylock -- Clive's Portia -- Trial by theater and tradition -- Macklin's exit, Garrick's stage -- Shakespeare, retired -- Garrick's farewell -- Siddons, offstage -- Mourning performance…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Sister Arts Theory -- Self-Reflexive W riting -- Terms and Methods -- Material and Chapter Contents -- 1 "Painted in Its Low-priz'd Colours": The Realist and the Allegorical in Daniel Defoe's Roxana -- 2 William Hogarth and Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novelistic Projects -- Fielding, Hogarth and Character -- Smollett and Hogarthian Variety -- Sterne and "Howgarth's Witty Chissel" -- 3 The Animated Portrait in The Castle of Otranto and the Post-Walpolean Gothic -- 4 The "Complete Beauty" and Its Shadows: Picturing the Body in Frances Burney's Evelina -- 5 Sentimental Iconography from Laurence Sterne to Ann Radcliffe: The Case of Guido Reni -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index…”

“…Desde el título mismo, el libro alude al Viaje sentimental por Francia e Italia, de Laurence Sterne y es mi homenaje a una de las ciudades que más me han fascinado, incluso antes de conocerla. …”

“…Laurence Sterne publicó este "Viaje sentimental" en 1768, apenas tres semanas antes de morir. …”

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“…Derrière un anodin récit de voyage sentimental dans le goût de Laurence Sterne, le livre était en réalité un violent réquisitoire contre les tares de la Russie de Catherine II. …”