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Spectacular Disappearances : Celebrity and Privacy, 1696-1801 / Julia H. Fawcett
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版者 | Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press |
| 出版年 | [2016] |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages) |
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| 内容注記 | 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 |
| 一般注記 | Fawcett theorizes over-expression as the unique quality that allows celebrities to meet their spectators' demands for disclosure without giving themselves away. Like a spotlight so brilliant it is blinding, these exaggerated self-representations suggest a new way of understanding key aspects of celebrity culture, in the 18th century and today. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched How can the modern individual control his or her self-representation when the whole world seems to be watching? This question is a familiar one amid the the twenty-first century's architecture of 24-hour newsrooms, chat rooms and interrogation rooms, but this book traces this question back to the stages, the pages, and the streets of eighteenth-century London--and to the strange and spectacular self-representations performed there by England's first modern celebrities. These self-representations include the enormous wig that the actor, manager, and playwright Colley Cibber donned in his most famous comic role as Lord Foppington--and that later reappeared on the head of Cibber's cross-dressing daughter, Charlotte Charke. They include the black page of 'Tristram Shandy, ' a memorial to the parson Yorick (and his author Laurence Sterne), a page so full of ink that it cannot be read. And they include the puffs and prologues that David Garrick used to hiehgten his publicity while protecting his privacy; the epistolary autobiography, modeled on the sentimental novel, of Garrick's protégée George Anne Bellamy; and the elliptical poems and portraits of the poet, actress, and royal courtesan Mary Robinson, known throughout her life as Perdita. Linking all of these representations is a quality that Fawcett terms "over-expression." 'Spectacular Disappearances' theorizes over-expression as the unique quality that allows celebrities to meet their spectators' demands for disclosure without giving themselves away. Like a spotlight so brilliant it is blinding, these exaggerated but illegible self-representations suggest a new way of understanding some of the key aspects of celebrity culture, both in the eighteenth century and today. They also challenge many of the disciplinary divides between theatrical character and novelistic character in eighteenth-century studies, or between performance studies and literary studies today. Drawing on a wide variety of materials and methodologies, 'Spectacular Disappearances' provides an overlooked but indispensable history for scholars and students of celebrity studies, performance studies, and autobiography--as well as to anyone curious about the origins of the eighteenth-century self Open Access Text in English Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-261) and index digitized 2016 HathiTrust Digital Library Description based on print version record; resource not viewed Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2016 Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| 著者標目 | *Fawcett, Julia H., |
| 件 名 | FREE:PERFORMING ARTS / General LCSH:Celebrities -- 18th century. -- Great Britain -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Fame -- 18th century. -- Great Britain -- Social aspects -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Theater -- 18th century. -- Great Britain -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Privacy -- 18th century. -- Great Britain -- History 全ての件名で検索 BISACSH:LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Celebrities FREE:Civilization FREE:English literature FREE:Fame -- Social aspects 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Privacy FREE:Theater FREE:Historische Persönlichkeit FREE:Selbstdarstellung FREE:Privatsphäre LCSH:Great Britian -- 18th century. -- Civilization 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Great Britain FREE:Großbritannien LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books FREE:Criticism, interpretation, etc FREE:History FREE:1700-1799 |
| 分 類 | DC23:305.5/2 |
| 書誌ID | ED00004291 |
| ISBN | 9780472121809 |