Book/Printed Material Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801

Title

• Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801

Names

• Fawcett, Julia H., author

Created / Published

• Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2016]

Contents

• Introduction -- The celebrity emerges as the deformed king: Richard III, the king of the dunces, and the overexpression of Englishness -- The growth of celebrity culture: Colley Cibber, Charlotte Charke, and the overexpression of gender -- The canon of print: Laurence Sterne and the overexpression of character -- The fate of overexpression in the age of sentiment: David Garrick, George Anne Bellamy, and the paradox of the actor -- The memoirs of Perdita and the language of loss: Mary Robinson's alternative to overexpression -- Coda: overexpression and its legacy.

Headings

• -  Celebrities--Great Britain--History--18th century
• -  English literature--18th century--History and criticism
• -  Fame--Social aspects--Great Britain--History--18th century
• -  Privacy--Great Britain--History--18th century
• -  Theater--Great Britain--History--18th century
• -  Great Britain--Civilization--18th century

Notes

• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index.
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

• DA485

Repository

• e-GenColVU Electronic Resource

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2020715664

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2020715664

Rights Advisory

• Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode External

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• epub

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2020715664

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