Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750–1850
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- Editor: Tom Mole, McGill University, Montréal
- Date Published: October 2012
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We live in a celebrity-obsessed culture, but until recently the history of celebrity has been little discussed. The contributors to this innovative collection locate the origins of a distinctively modern kind of celebrity in the Romantic period. Celebrity was from the beginning a multi-media phenomenon whose cultural pervasiveness - in literature and the theatre, music and visual culture, fashion and boxing - overflows modern disciplinary boundaries and requires attention from scholars with different kinds of expertise. Looking back to the 1720s and forward to the 1890s, this volume identifies the people and institutions that made the Romantic period a pivotal moment in the creation of celebrity. Tracing connections between celebrity and the period's discourses of heroism, genius, nationalism, patronage and gender, these essays map the contours of a cultural apparatus that many of the period's central figures became implicated in, even as they sought to distance themselves from it.
Read more- A collection of essays tracing celebrity culture through Romantic literature and culture
- Includes new work on Byron, Johnson, Mary Robinson and many other now-forgotten celebrities
- Illustrated with several examples of how celebrities were represented in art and the media
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"...aims to demonstrate the existence not so much of individual celebrities as of a 'recognizably modern celebrity culture' before the twentieth century....The essays in this book make a convincing case for the sorrows of celebrity, as well as its alleged charms, in the prephotographic, pre-cinematic age."
-Michael Caines, TLSSee more reviews"Tom Mole’s collection of essays offers a wide and intriguing range of examples of celebrity culture in the decades between 1750 and 1850 and shows to what enormous extent the Romantic age was defined and sustained by the rise of superstars and their masses of devoted adherents....Mole’s collection of well-written essays is an indispensable supplement to the numerous histories of and companions to Romanticism. Correcting our image of the Romantic period as a time of diaphanous idealism, the contributors to Mole’s book acquaint us with ‘the other Romantics’: the stars on the stages and in the boxing rings, the lions of the salons and the press and their fans elevating them like waves, leaves and clouds and letting them fall ruthlessly onto the thorns of life. And for all those who despair of the inflation of superstars in our post-modern age the book offers the consoling thought that we are closer to the Romantic age than we thought we were."
-NORBERT LENNARTZ"This volume is clearly a valuable study of the history of celebrity, but its essays also highlight significant moments in the broader histories of print media, theatre, the public sphere, and modern subjectivity. By shining a limelight on this history of celebrity, the volume serves to show how celebrity is increasingly making its presence justifiably felt in broader literary, performance, and cultural histories."
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- Date Published: October 2012
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107407855
- length: 310 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
- weight: 0.42kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction Tom Mole
Part I. Apparatus:
1. Celebrity and the spectacle of nation Jason Goldsmith
2. Celebrity, politics, and the rhetoric of genius David Higgins
3. The physiognomy of the lion: countering literary celebrity in the nineteenth century Richard Salmon
Part II. Sites:
4. Rara avis or fozy turnip: Rossini as celebrity in 1820s London Benjamin Walton
5. Daniel Mendoza and sporting celebrity: a case study Peter Briggs
6. Siddons rediviva: death, memory, and theatrical afterlife Heather McPherson
Part III. Gender:
7. Trials of the dandy: George Brummell's scandalous celebrity Clara Tuite
8. Celebrity violence in the careers of Savage, Pope, and Johnson Linda Zionkowski
9. Mary Robinson's conflicted celebrity Tom Mole
Part IV. Audience:
10. Patron or patronized?: 'fans' and the eighteenth-century English stage Cheryl Wanko
11. Byron, commonplacing and early fan culture Corin Throsby
12. Ann Hatton's celebrity pursuits Judith Pascoe
Bibliography
Index.
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