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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jones, Emrys D. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Joule, Victoria (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-18th century.; Eighteenth-Century Literature.
• Physical Description: XV, 304 p. 3 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783319769028
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-76902-8

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.