Suppl. 32 - Celebrity’s Histories

Supplement – Celebrity’s Histories: Case Studies & Critical Perspectives (ed. Robert van Krieken & Nicola Vinovrški)

• Nicola Vinovrški & Robert van Krieken: New Directions in the History of Celebrity: Case Studies and Critical Perspectives.

Contributions

• Antoine Lilti & Alice Le Goff: On Figures Publiques: L’Invention de la Célébrité (1750-1850): Mechanisms of Celebrity and Social Esteem.
• Chris Rojek: The Two Bodies of Achieved Celebrity.
• Jennifer Holl: "The wonder of his time": Richard Tarlton and the Dynamics of Early Modern Theatrical Celebrity.
• Brian Cowan: Histories of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary England.
• Nicola Vinovrški: Casanova: A Case Study of Celebrity in 18th Century Europe.
• David Worrall: Edmund Kean’s Celebrity: Assemblage Theory and the Unintended Consequences of Audience Density.
• Jeffrey Kahan: Bettymania and the Death of Celebrity Culture.
• Simon Morgan: Heroes in the Age of Celebrity: Lafayette, Kossuth, and John Bright in 19th-Century America.
• Neil Washbourne: W.G. Grace: Sporting Superstar, Cultural Celebrity, and Hero (to Oscar Wilde’s Villain) of the Great Public Drama of 1895.