Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850

Herausgeber: Pédron, Anaïs; Siviter, Clare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Scholars often focus on the period from 1750 to 1850 as the birth of “celebrity”, but this volume is the first to offer a sustained comparative study of celebrity in Britain and France during this period. Through a series of national and international case studies bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, it unearths how celebrity was developed, theorized, and consumed on either side of the Channel.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781644532133
• ISBN-10: 1644532131
• Artikelnr.: 61417671

Autorenporträt

ANAÏS PÉDRON is an independent scholar based in London, England. She has recently published the article “‘Nous aussi nous sommes citoyennes’: Female Activism during the French Revolution” in Women in French Studies (Special Issue 2019), and the chapter “Olympe de Gouges, anti-esclavagiste et anticolonialiste?” in Les Lumières, l’esclavage et l’idéologie coloniale: XVIIIe - XIXe siècle, ed. Pascale Pellerin.   CLARE SIVITER is a theater historian of the longer French Revolutionary period and is lecturer in French Theatre at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Tragedy and Nation in the Age of Napoleon.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations    
Antoine Lilti, Preface    
Anaïs Pédron and Clare Siviter, Introduction
    
Section 1: Theorizing Celebrity
Chapter 1: Chris Haffenden, “‘Immortality in This World’: Reconfiguring
Celebrity and Monument in the Romantic Period”    
Chapter 2: Blake Smith, “The Scholar as Celebrity: Anquetil-Duperron’s
Discours Préliminaire”    
Chapter 3: Meagan Mason, “The Physiognomies of Virtuosi in Paris,
1830–1848” 
Section 2: Representing Celebrity
Chapter 4: Anna Senkiw, “‘To Perdition’: Politicians, Players, and the
Press”    
Chapter 5: Anaïs Pédron, “Clairon’s Strategies to Achieve Celebrity and
Glory”    
Chapter 6: Miranda Kiek, “Celebrity—Thou Art Translated! Corinne in
England”    
Chapter 7: Clare Siviter, “Celebrity Across Borders: The Chevalier d’Eon” 
  
Section 3: Inheriting Celebrity
Chapter 8: Emrys D. Jones: “‘Knowing My Family’: Dynastic Recognition in
Eighteenth-Century Celebrity Culture”    
Chapter 9: Gabriel Wick, “Princes of the Public Sphere: Visibility,
Performance, and Princely Political Activism, 1771–1774”    
Chapter 10: Ariane Viktoria Fichtl, “Ancient Parallels to
Eighteenth-Century Concepts of Celebrity”    
Chapter 11: Laure Philip, “The Celebrity, Reputation, and Glory of the
Empire and Restoration France through the Lens of Adèle de Boigne’s
Memoirs” 
   
Bibliography    
About the Contributors