Romanticism and celebrity culture, 1750-1850
By: [edited by] Tom Mole.
Contributors: Mole, Tom, 1976-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521884778
Subjects: Fame -- History -- 18th century; Fame -- History -- 19th century; Celebrities -- Great Britain -- History; Fame -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century; Fame -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-282) and index.
Table of contents: title: Celebrity and the spectacle of nation / Jason Goldsmith; title: Celebrity, politics and the rhetoric of genius / David Higgins; title: The physiognomy of the lion: encountering literary celebrity in the nineteenth century / Richard Salmon; title: Rara avis or fozy turnip: Rossini as celebrity in 1820s London / Benjamin Walton; title: Daniel Mendoza and sporting celebrity: a case study / Peter M. Briggs; title: Siddons rediviva: death, memory and theatrical afterlife / Heather McPherson; title: Trials of the dandy: George Brummell's scandalous celebrity / Clara Tuite; title: Celebrity violence in the careers of Savage, Pope and Johnson / Linda Zionkowski; title: Mary Robinson's conflicted celebrity / Tom Mole; title: Patron or patronised?: 'fans' and the eighteenth-century English stage / Cheryl Wanko; title: Byron, commonplacing and early fan culture / Corin Throsby; title: Ann Hatton's celebrity pursuits / Judith Pascoe.