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THE FEMINIZATION OF FAME 1750-1830
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| By: |
Claire Brock |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£66.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0230286453 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780230286450 |
| Publisher: |
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN |
| Pub. date: |
11 July, 2006 |
| Series: |
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print |
| Description: |
This book addresses the literary, cultural and historical questions surrounding the reconceptualization of fame between 1750-1830. It examines genres from history writing to literature, public and private memoirs to political treatises in English and in French in order to explore 'The age of personality's' obsession with instantaneous publicity. |
| Synopsis: |
Fame is fickle, flirtatious and eternally female. Yet the famed are always men; women have been relegated to occasional footnotes in the history of fame. This book redresses the balance by examining the period from 1750 to 1830 when fame underwent a process of feminization, enabling women to embrace celebrity. Examining the writings and careers of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Catherine Macaulay, Mary Robinson, Frances Burney, Germaine De Stael and William Hazlitt, The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830 examines how fame became something other than an exclusive and exclusionary bastion of the socially privileged in this period and became, to borrow the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a form of celebrity which was 'more [one's] own', something to be achieved and enjoyed rather than as a lifetime achievement. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Palgrave Macmillan |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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