Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture

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Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture is written by Emrys D. Jones and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319769022 (ISBN 10) and 9783319769028 (ISBN 13).

This book provides an expansive view of celebrity’s intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebrity’s origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.