TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fawcett,Julia H.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 
SN  - 9780472121809
AV  - DA485 .F39 2016
U1  - 305.5/2 23
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Privacy
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Theater
KW  - English literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Fame
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Celebrities
KW  - Great Britian
KW  - Civilization
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - 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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/52103/
ER  -