Making Stars

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub

PART I

REPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE

1 The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke

Stuart Sherman

2 Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century

Semane Parsons

3 Image/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire

Heather McPherson

PART II

MARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

4 Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity

Soeren Hammerschmidt

5 Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today

Kevin Bourque

6 Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity

Glynis Ridley

PART III

LIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE

7 Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland's Quest for Anonymous Celebrity

Jack Lynch

8 Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication

Elaine McGirr

9 Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore

Sarah Ailwood

PART IV

THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC

10 Creating Celebratory Memory: The Tombeaux des Princes

Anne Betty Weinshenker

11 Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History

Rebecca Tierney-Hynes

12 The Everyday Celebrity of "Sir" Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat

Miriam Wallace

PART V

WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?

13 A "Universally Sorrowful Sensation": National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta

Teri Doerksen

14 Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy

Kirsten T. Saxton

15 Extra-illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of Celebrity

Jane Wessel

Notes on Contributors

Index

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• Companheiros literários, resenhas de livros e guias
• Cultura popular
• Estudos literários: c 1500 a c 1800
• História inglesa e irlandesa

celebrity studies; animal studies; disability studies; eighteenth-century studies; eighteenth-century Britain; deep eighteenth century; literary studies; British literary studies; English literature; theatre and performance studies; theatre history; theatre studies; visual arts; biography; celebrity; eighteenth-century biography; eighteenth-century celebrity; celebrity culture; celebrity performance; celebrity and performance; celebrity biography; celebrity and theatre; celebrity power; the public sphere; public opinion