Intimacy and celebrity in eighteenth-century literary culture : public interiors /: public interiors. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Emrys D. Jones, Victoria Joule.
• Editors: Jones, Emrys, 1984-; Joule, Victoria
• Contents: 1. Introduction: Emrys D. Jones and Victoria Joule.- 2. Nell Gwyn's Breasts and Colley Cibber's Shirts: Celebrity Actors and their Famous 'Parts': Elaine McGirr.- 3. Anne Oldfield's Domestic Interiors: Auctions, Material Culture and Celebrity: Claudine van Hensbergen.- 4. 'Peeping' and Public Intimacy in Susanna Centlivre's The Busy Body (1709): Victoria Joule.- 5. Garrick, Dying: James Harriman-Smith.- 6. Doctor Sacheverell and the Politics of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary Britain: Brian Cowan.- 7. Farcical Politics: Fielding's Public Emotion: Rebecca Tierney-Hynes.- 8. 'A Man in Love': Intimacy and Political Celebrity in the Early Eighteenth Century: Emrys D. Jones.- 9. 'The ARMS of Friendship': John Dunton's Platonic Aquisitions: Nicola Parsons.- 10. 'I make a very shining figure': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the intimate publics of authorship: Clare Brant.- 11. Foote, Fox, and the Mysterious Mrs Grieve: Print Celebrity and Imposture: Ruth Scobie.- 12. Notoriety's public interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at Ranelagh: George Rousseau.- 13. Body Double: Katherine Hepburn at Madame Tussauds: Laura Engel.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.52; Fame -- Social aspects -- History -- 18th century; Celebrities -- Social life and customs -- 18th century; Elite (Social sciences) -- History -- 18th century; Public spaces -- History -- 18th century; Privacy -- History -- 18th century; Celebrities in literature; Celebrities in popular culture; Fame -- Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319769028
• Related ISBNs: 9783319769011
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.