Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture: Public Interiors 1st Edition

Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture: Public Interiors 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783319769028,3319769022

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3319769022
• ISBN-13: 9783319769028
• Author: Emrys D. Jones, Victoria Joule

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.

Table contents:

1. Nell Gwyn’s Breasts and Colley Cibber’s Shirts: Celebrity Actors and Their Famous “Parts”
2. Anne Oldfield’s Domestic Interiors: Auctions, Material Culture and Celebrity
3. “Peeping” and Public Intimacy in Susanna Centlivre’s The Busy Body (1709)
4. Garrick, Dying
5. Doctor Sacheverell and the Politics of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary Britain
6. Farcical Politics: Fielding’s Public Emotion
7. “A Man in Love”: Intimacy and Political Celebrity in the Early Eighteenth Century
8. “The ARMS of Friendship”: John Dunton’s Platonic Acquisitions
9. “I Make a Very Shining Figure”: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Intimate Publicity of Authorship
10. Foote, Fox, and the Mysterious Mrs Grieve: Print Celebrity and Imposture
11. Part IV. Intimate Notoriety: A Case Study
12. Notoriety’s Public Interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at Ranelagh
13. Epilogue: Body Double—Katharine Hepburn at Madame Tussauds

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