Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture [electronic resource] : Public Interiors /
Jones, Emrys D.editor.
Joule, Victoria.editor.
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 lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity's origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.
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.
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 lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity's origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.
Literature, Modern-18th century.
Eighteenth-Century Literature.