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Overview

Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing in dialogue the growing fields of celebrity studies in the two countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti’s seminal work, The Invention of Celebrity, translated into English in 2017. With contributions from a diverse range of scholarly cultures, the volume has a firmly interdisciplinary scope over the time period 1750 to 1850, which was an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. Bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, the volume employs a firmly interdisciplinary scope to explore an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. The organization of the collection allows for new readings of the similarities and differences in the understanding of celebrity in Britain and France. Consequently, the volume builds upon the questions that are currently at the heart of celebrity studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781644532133
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Publication date: 07/23/2021
Series: Performing Celebrity
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

ANAÏS PÉDRON is an independent scholar based in London, England. She has recently published the article “‘Nous aussi nous sommes citoyennes’: Female Activism during the French Revolution” in Women in French Studies (Special Issue 2019), and the chapter “Olympe de Gouges, anti-esclavagiste et anticolonialiste?” in Les Lumières, l’esclavage et l’idéologie coloniale: XVIIIe - XIXe siècle, ed. Pascale Pellerin.
 
CLARE SIVITER is a theater historian of the longer French Revolutionary period and is lecturer in French Theatre at the University of Bristol. She is the author of Tragedy and Nation in the Age of Napoleon.

Table of Contents

List of Figures vii

Preface Antoine Lilti ix

Introduction Anais Pédron Clare Siviter 1

Theorizing Celebrity

1 Immortality in This World": Reconfiguring Celebrity and Monument in the Romantic Period Chris Haffenden 21

2 The Scholar as Celebrity: Anquetil-Duperron's Discours Préliminaire Blake Smith 44

3 The Physiognomies of Virtuosi in Paris, 1830-1848 Meacan Mason 65

Representing Celebrity

4 "To Perdition": Politicians, Players, and the Press Anna Senkiw 93

5 Chiron's Strategies to Achieve Celebrity and Glory Anal's Pédron 117

6 Celebrity-Thou Art Translated! Corinne in England Miranda Kiek 137

7 Celebrity Across Borders: The Chevalier d'Eon Clare Siviter 157

Inheriting Celebrity

8 "Knowing My Family": Dynastic Recognition in Eighteenth-Century Celebrity Culture Emrys D. Jones 181

9 Princes of the Public Sphere: Visibility, Performance, and Princely Political Activism, 1771-1774 Gabriel Wick 203

10 Ancient Parallels to Eighteenth-Century Concepts of Celebrity Ariane Viktoria Fichtl 225

11 The Celebrity, Reputation, and Glory of the Empire and Restoration France through the Lens of Adèle de Boigne's Memoirs Laure Philip 248

Bibliography 269

Index 297

About the Contributors 303

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