Celebrity Across The Channel 1750 1850

Author : Anaïs Pédron,Clare Siviter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532140

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Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850 by Anaïs Pédron,Clare Siviter Pdf

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.

Author : Sandra Mayer,Ruth Scobie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501392344

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Authorship, Activism and Celebrity by Sandra Mayer,Ruth Scobie Pdf

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of socio-political concerns. This book is the first to explore – through history, criticism and creative interventions – the relationship between authorship, political activism and celebrity culture across historical periods, cultures, literatures and media. It brings together scholars, industry stakeholders and prominent writer-activists to engage in a conversation on literary fame and public authority. These scholarly essays, interviews, conversations and opinion pieces interrogate the topos of the artist as prophet and acute critic of the zeitgeist; analyse the ideological dimension of literary celebrity; and highlight the fault lines between public and private authorial selves, 'pure' art, political commitment and marketplace imperatives. In case studies ranging from the 18th century to present-day controversies, authors illuminate the complex relationship between literature, politics, celebrity culture and market activism, bringing together vivid current debates on the function and responsibility of literature in increasingly fractured societies.

Author : Tom Mole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521884778

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Romanticism and Celebrity Culture, 1750-1850 by Tom Mole Pdf

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how our modern idea of celebrity was created in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Author : Emily Ruth Rutter
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532461

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Black Celebrity by Emily Ruth Rutter Pdf

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers retrain readers’ attention away from athletes’ and entertainers’ overdetermined bodies and toward their complex inner lives. Phillips, Allen, Young, Walker, Matejka, and Jess especially plumb the emotional archive of desire, anxiety, pain, and defiance engendered by the racial hypervisibility and depersonalization that has long characterized black stardom. In the process, these novelists and poets and, in turn, the present book revise understandings of black celebrity history while evincing the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.

Author : Olivia Gruber Florek
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781644532874

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The Celebrity Monarch by Olivia Gruber Florek Pdf

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted portraits by Franz Xaver Winterhalter and widely collected photographs spread news of her beauty, and the twentieth-century German-language film trilogy Sissi (1955-57) cemented this legacy. Despite the enduring fascination with the empress, art historians have never considered Elisabeth’s role in producing her public portraiture or the influence of her creation. The Celebrity Monarch reveals how portraits of Elisabeth transformed monarchs from divinely appointed sovereigns to public personalities whose daily lives were consumed by spectators. With resources ranging from the paintings of Gustav Klimt and Elisabeth’s private collection of celebrity photography to twenty-first century collages and films by T. J. Wilcox, this book positions Elisabeth herself as the primary engineer of her public image and argues for the widespread influence of her construction on both modern art and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity.

Author : Serena Laiena
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781644533178

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The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy by Serena Laiena Pdf

Who were the first celebrity couples? How was their success forged? Which forces influenced their self-fashioning and marketing strategies? These questions are at the core of this study, which looks at the birth of a phenomenon, that of the couple in show business, with a focus on the promotional strategies devised by two professional performers: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576–1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583–ca.1631). This book examines their artistic path – a deliberately crafted and mutually beneficial joint career – and links it to the historical, social, and cultural context of post-Tridentine Italy. Rooted in a broad research field, encompassing theatre history, Italian studies, celebrity studies, gender studies, and performance studies, The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy revises the conventional view of the Italian diva, investigates the deployment of Catholic devotion as a marketing tool, and argues for the importance of the couple system in the history of Commedia dell’Arte, a system that continues to shape celebrity today.

Author : Heather Ladd,Leslie Ritchie
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644532607

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English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 by Heather Ladd,Leslie Ritchie Pdf

English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores the theatrical anecdote's role in the construction of stage fame in England's emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.

Author : Chelsea Phillips
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644532485

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Carrying All Before Her by Chelsea Phillips Pdf

Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre's connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women's agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.

Author : Harold Simpson,Charles Braun
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1378051858

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A Century of Famous Actresses, 1750-1850 by Harold Simpson,Charles Braun Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Harold Simpson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:720903866

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8A9 Century of Famous Actresses, 1750-1850 by Harold Simpson Pdf

Author : Kelsey L. Haskett,Holly Faith Nelson
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530894

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French Women Authors by Kelsey L. Haskett,Holly Faith Nelson Pdf

French Women Authors examines the importance afforded the spiritual in the lives and works of French women authors over the centuries, thereby highlighting both the significance of spiritually informed writings in French literature in general, as well as the specific contribution made by women writers. Eleven different authors have been selected for this collection, representing major literary periods from the medieval to the (post)modern. Each author is examined in the light of a Christian worldview, creating an approach which both validates and interrogates the spiritual dimension of the works under consideration. At the same time, the book as a whole presents a broad perspective on French women writers, showing how they reflect or stand in opposition to their times. The chronological order of the chapters reveals an evolution in the modes of spirituality expressed by these authors and in the role of spiritual belief or religion in French society over time. From the overwhelmingly Christian culture of the Middle Ages and pre-Enlightenment France to the wide diversity prevalent in (post)modern times, including the rise of Islam within French borders, a radical shift has permeated French society, a shift that is reflected in the writers chosen for this book. Moreover, the sensitivity of women writers to the individual side of spiritual life, in contrast with the practices of organized religion, also emerges as a major trend in this book, with women often being seen as a voice for social and religious change, or for a more meaningful, personal faith. Lastly, despite a blatant rejection of God and religion, spiritual threads still run through the works of one of France’s most celebrated contemporary writers (Marguerite Duras), whose cry for an absolute in the midst of a spiritual vacuum only reiterates the quest for transcendence or for some form of spiritual expression, as voiced in the works of her female predecessors and contemporaries in France, and as demonstrated in this book. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

Author : Anthony Howe,Simon Morgan
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0754655725

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Rethinking Nineteenth-century Liberalism by Anthony Howe,Simon Morgan Pdf

Addressing the critical issues that were to bring Richard Cobden (1804-1865) to the attention of Europe's political classes, this volume provides a timely reassessment of his influence on the development of nineteenth-century economic thinking. Focusing particularly on Cobden's advocacy of free trade and opposition to tariffs, the book explores the impact of 'Cobdenism' on the national and international stage, and considers his lasting legacy to economic liberalism. Offering a broad yet coherent investigation of the 'Cobdenite project' by leading international scholars, this volume provides a new and fascinating insight into one of the nineteenth century's most important figures.

Author : Liz Wells
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000390643

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Photography by Liz Wells Pdf

Now in its sixth edition, this seminal textbook examines key debates in photographic theory and places them in their social and political contexts. Written especially for students in further and higher education and for introductory college courses, it provides a coherent introduction to the nature of photographic seeing. Individual chapters cover: • Key debates in photographic theory and history • Documentary photography and photojournalism • Personal and popular photography • Photography and the human body • Photography and commodity culture • Photography as art. This revised and updated edition includes new case studies on topics such as: Black Lives Matter and the racialised body; the #MeToo movement; materialism and embodiment; nation branding; and an extended critical discussion of landscape as genre. Illustrated with over 100 colour and black and white photographs, it features work from Bill Brandt, Susan Derges, Rineke Dijkstra, Fran Herbello, Hannah Höch, Mari Katayama, Sant Khalsa, Karen Knorr, Dorothea Lange, Susan Meiselas, Lee Miller, Ingrid Pollard, Jacob Riis, Alexander Rodchenko, Andres Serrano, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall. A fully updated resource information, including guides to public archives and useful websites, full glossary of terms and a comprehensive bibliography, plus additional resources at routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/9780367222758/ make this an ideal introduction to the field.

Author : Joseph Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2580 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Biography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118181622

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Universal Pronouncing Dictionary of Biography and Mythology by Joseph Thomas Pdf

Author : P. David Marshall
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452944029

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Celebrity and Power by P. David Marshall Pdf

Simultaneously celebrated and denigrated, celebrities represent not only the embodiment of success, but also the ultimate construction of false value. Celebrity and Power questions the impulse to become embroiled with the construction and collapse of the famous, exploring the concept of the new public intimacy: a product of social media in which celebrities from Lady Gaga to Barack Obama are expected to continuously campaign for audiences in new ways. In a new Introduction for this edition, P. David Marshall investigates the viewing public’s desire to associate with celebrity and addresses the explosion of instant access to celebrity culture, bringing famous people and their admirers closer than ever before.