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

Jones, Emrys D.; Joule, Victoria

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-07-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783319769011

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76902-8

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 304