{"product_id":"making-stars-biography-and-celebrity-in-eighteenth-century-britain-9781644532652","title":"Making Stars: Biography and Celebrity in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in \u003ci\u003eMaking Stars\u003c\/i\u003e interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, celebrity emerged as public fascination for the private lives of publicly visible individuals. Biography and celebrity are mutually constitutive, but in complex and varied ways that this volume unpacks. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub\u003cbr\u003e PART I\u003cbr\u003e REPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE\u003cbr\u003e 1 The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke\u003cbr\u003e Stuart Sherman\u003cbr\u003e 2 Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Semane Parsons\u003cbr\u003e 3 Image\/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire\u003cbr\u003e Heather McPherson\u003cbr\u003e PART II\u003cbr\u003e MARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD\u003cbr\u003e 4 Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity\u003cbr\u003e Sören Hammerschmidt\u003cbr\u003e 5 Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today\u003cbr\u003e Kevin Bourque\u003cbr\u003e 6 Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity\u003cbr\u003e Glynis Ridley\u003cbr\u003e PART III\u003cbr\u003e LIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE\u003cbr\u003e 7 Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland’s Quest for Anonymous Celebrity\u003cbr\u003e Jack Lynch\u003cbr\u003e 8 Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication\u003cbr\u003e Elaine McGirr\u003cbr\u003e 9 Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Ailwood\u003cbr\u003e PART IV\u003cbr\u003e THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC\u003cbr\u003e 10 Creating Celebratory Memory: The \u003ci\u003eTombeaux des Princes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anne Betty Weinshenker\u003cbr\u003e 11 Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History\u003cbr\u003e Rebecca Tierney-Hynes\u003cbr\u003e 12 The Everyday Celebrity of “Sir” Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat\u003cbr\u003e Miriam Wallace\u003cbr\u003e PART V\u003cbr\u003e WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?\u003cbr\u003e 13 A “Universally Sorrowful Sensation”: National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta\u003cbr\u003e Teri Doerksen\u003cbr\u003e 14 Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy\u003cbr\u003e Kirsten T. Saxton\u003cbr\u003e 15 Extra-illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of Celebrity\u003cbr\u003e Jane Wessel\u003cbr\u003e Notes on Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49411062202711,"sku":"9781644532652","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/making-stars-biography-and-celebrity-in-eighteenth-century-britain-9781644532652","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}