Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture: Public Interiors

TY - BOOK

T1 - Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

T2 - Public Interiors

A2 - Jones, Emrys D.

A2 - Joule, Victoria

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity’s origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.

AB - This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity’s origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-76902-8

DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-76902-8

M3 - Anthology

SN - 9783319769011

SN - 9783030083205

BT - Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

PB - Palgrave Macmillan

CY - Houndmills, Basingstoke

ER -