Spectacular Disappearances
Fawcett, Julia H.
Spectacular Disappearances Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / Julia H. Fawcett. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
9780472121809 0472121804
Privacy--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Fame--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Celebrities--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Great Britian--Civilization--18th century.
Electronic books.
DA485 / .F39 2016
305.5/2
Spectacular Disappearances Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / Julia H. Fawcett. - 1 online resource (pages cm) - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Open Access
9780472121809 0472121804
Privacy--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Theater--History--Great Britain--18th century.
English literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Fame--Social aspects--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Celebrities--History--Great Britain--18th century.
Great Britian--Civilization--18th century.
Electronic books.
DA485 / .F39 2016
305.5/2