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Based on the subject of that mysterious characteristic ""It"" - ""the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people"". This book traces the origins of ""It"" back to the period following the Restoration, persuasively linking the sex appeal of today's celebrity figures with those who lived centuries before.

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It showcases Roach's trademark gift of making the invisible visible across a dazzlingly broad spectrum of performance behaviors and time periods. Wittily epigrammatic (celebrity sooner or later extracts in abjection what it bestows in glamor), It gives us a fresh vocabulary for interpreting how after-images endure in cultural memory through 'the passage of exceptional personalities through the imaginative life of their tribes.' - Andrew Sofer, Boston College

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    A Paperback by Joseph Roach

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      Publisher: LUP - University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 4/12/2007 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780472069361, 978-0472069361
      ISBN10: 0472069365
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Based on the subject of that mysterious characteristic ""It"" - ""the easily perceived but hard-to-define quality possessed by abnormally interesting people"". This book traces the origins of ""It"" back to the period following the Restoration, persuasively linking the sex appeal of today's celebrity figures with those who lived centuries before.

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      It showcases Roach's trademark gift of making the invisible visible across a dazzlingly broad spectrum of performance behaviors and time periods. Wittily epigrammatic (celebrity sooner or later extracts in abjection what it bestows in glamor), It gives us a fresh vocabulary for interpreting how after-images endure in cultural memory through 'the passage of exceptional personalities through the imaginative life of their tribes.' - Andrew Sofer, Boston College

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