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OverviewIn bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, celebrity emerged as public fascination for the private lives of publicly visible individuals. Biography and celebrity are mutually constitutive, but in complex and varied ways that this volume unpacks. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nora Nachumi , Kristina Straub , Stuart Sherman , Semane ParsonsPublisher: University of Delaware Press Imprint: University of Delaware Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9781644532645ISBN 10: 1644532646 Pages: 396 Publication Date: 15 July 2022 Recommended Age: From 18 to 99 years Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub PART I REPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE 1 The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke Stuart Sherman 2 Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century Semane Parsons 3 Image/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire Heather McPherson PART II MARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD 4 Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity Sören Hammerschmidt 5 Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today Kevin Bourque 6 Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity Glynis Ridley PART III LIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE 7 Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland’s Quest for Anonymous Celebrity Jack Lynch 8 Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication Elaine McGirr 9 Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore Sarah Ailwood PART IV THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC 10 Creating Celebratory Memory: The Tombeaux des Princes Anne Betty Weinshenker 11 Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History Rebecca Tierney-Hynes 12 The Everyday Celebrity of “Sir” Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat Miriam Wallace PART V WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY? 13 A “Universally Sorrowful Sensation”: National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta Teri Doerksen 14 Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy Kirsten T. Saxton 15 Extra-illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of Celebrity Jane Wessel Notes on Contributors IndexReviewsAuthor InformationNORA NACHUMI is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and coordinator of the minor in Women’s Studies at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University in New York, NY. She is the author of Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage and has published essays and book chapters on female novelists, playwrights, pedagogy and film adaptation. KRISTINA STRAUB is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology and Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth Century Britain, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth-century theatre, sexuality, and gender. She co-curated “Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and Literary Celebrity” at the Folger Shakespeare Library with Janine Barchas. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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