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    Making Stars
    Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain

    Nora Nachumi (Edited by), Kristina Straub (Edited by), Stuart Sherman (Contributions by), Semane Parsons (Contributions by), Heather McPherson (Contributions by), Sören Hammerschmidt (Contributions by), Kevin Bourque (Contributions by), Glynis Ridley (Contributions by), Jack Lynch (Contributions by), Elaine McGirr (Contributions by), Sarah Ailwood (Contributions by), Anne Betty Weinshenker (Contributions by), Rebecca Tierney-Hynes (Contributions by), Miriam L. Wallace (Contributions by), Teri Doerksen (Contributions by), Kirsten Teresa Saxton (Contributions by), Jane Wessel (Contributions by)

    9781644532652

    Hardback, published 15 July 2022

    396 pages, 54 b&w, 10 color images
    23.5 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm, 0.49 kg

    In bringing biography and celebrity together, the essays in Making Stars interrogate contemporary and current understandings of each. Although biography was not invented in the eighteenth century, the period saw the emergence of works that focus on individuals who are interesting as much, if not more, for their everyday, lived experience than for their status or actions. At the same time, celebrity emerged as public fascination for the private lives of publicly visible individuals. Biography and celebrity are mutually constitutive, but in complex and varied ways that this volume unpacks. Contributors to this volume present us a picture of eighteenth-century celebrity that was mediated across multiple sites, demonstrating that eighteenth-century celebrity culture in Britain was more pervasive, diverse and, in many ways, more egalitarian, than previously supposed.

    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
    Sören 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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