Nora Nachumi, Kristina Straub, Stuart Sherman, Semane Parsons, Heather Mcpherson

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Making Stars

Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Herausgeber: Nachumi, Nora; Straub, Kristina

Beschreibung

Making Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.

Autor

NORA NACHUMI is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and coordinator of the minor in Women's Studies at Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University in New York, NY. She is the author of Acting Like a Lady: British Women Novelists and the Eighteenth-Century Stage and has published essays and book chapters on female novelists, playwrights, pedagogy and film adaptation. KRISTINA STRAUB is a Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Sexual Suspects: Eighteenth-Century Players and Sexual Ideology and Domestic Affairs: Intimacy, Eroticism, and Violence Between Servants and Masters in Eighteenth Century Britain, as well as numerous articles on eighteenth-century theatre, sexuality, and gender. She co-curated "Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and Literary Celebrity" at the Folger Shakespeare Library with Janine Barchas.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Delaware Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 156mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9781644532652
• ISBN-10: 1644532654
• Artikelnr.: 62922131