The frenzy of renown
Subtitle: fame & its history
By: Leo Braudy.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 649
Subjects: Fame
Description: Analysizes the concept of fame throughout history. Includes chapters on Homer, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Cicero, Julius Caesar, Augustus, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, caligula, Nero, Jesus Christ, St. Augustine, Charlesmagne, St. Francis of Assisi, Dante Alighieri, Geoffrey Chaucer, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Benjamin Franklin, John Keats, William Hazlitt, Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Abraham Lincoln, Mathew Brady, P.T. Barnum, et al.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 599-623.
Includes index.