Making Stars
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In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in this volume interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Contributors present a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that celebrity culture was more pervasive, diverse and egalitarian than previously supposed.

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Produktbeschreibung
In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in this volume interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Contributors present a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that celebrity culture was more pervasive, diverse and egalitarian than previously supposed.
Autorenporträt
NORA NACHUMI is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and coordinator of the minor in Women's Studies at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University in New York, NY. She is the author of Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage and has published essays and book chapters on female novelists, playwrights, pedagogy and film adaptation. KRISTINA STRAUB is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology and Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth Century Britain, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth-century theatre, sexuality, and gender. She co-curated "Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and Literary Celebrity" at the Folger Shakespeare Library with Janine Barchas.