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Making Stars

Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Nora Nachumi editor Kristina Straub editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Delaware Press

Published:15th Jul '22

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In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars 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.

ISBN: 9781644532645

Dimensions: 235mm x 156mm x 38mm

Weight: 680g

396 pages