The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830
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The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830

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The Feminization of Fame 1750-1830

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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.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2006
ISBN
9780230286450
Topic
Storia
Subtopic
Storia sociale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. List of Figures
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction: Feminizing Fame
  7. 1 ‘A New Sort of Glory’: Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ‘little philosophical chemistry’ and the Reach of Rousseauvian Fame in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  8. 2 Catharine Macaulay: ‘triumph[ant], when alive, o’er future fate’
  9. 3 Mary Robinson and the ‘splendour of a name’
  10. 4 Inflating Frances Burney
  11. 5 Germaine de StaĂ«l: ‘When one can no longer find peace of mind in obscurity, it is necessary to look for strength in celebrity’
  12. 6 William Hazlitt, On Being Brilliant: The Spirit of the Age
  13. Afterword
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Untitled