Fashioning celebrity : eighteenth-century British actresses and strategies for image making / by Laura Engel
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Book
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Main Collection post-1900
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Publication Year
2011
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Abstract
In Fashioning Celebrity (2011) Laura Engel suggests that eighteenth-century practices of self-promotion mirror contemporary mirror current ideas: marketing, framing and selling the elusive self. The lives and work of Sarah Siddons, Mary Robinson, Mary Wells and Fanny Kemble are explored, along with the portraits and cartoons that idealised and satirised them.
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(CIP) CIP record. Publication date: 04 11||(BIB) Includes bibliographical references and index.||(CON) Sarah Siddons's diva celebrity -- Mary Robinson's gothic celebrity -- Mary Wells's notorious celebrity -- Epilogue. Fanny Kemble's inherited celebrity.
Biblio Notes
1v 184p. 15.5cm x 23.5 cm.
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1