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• Author: Antoine Lilti
The Invention of Celebrity
Frequently perceived as a characteristic of modern culture, the phenomenon of celebrity has much older roots. In this book Antoine Lilti shows that the mechanisms of celebrity were developed in Europe during the Enlightenment, well before films, yellow journalism, and television, and then flourished during the Romantic period on both sides of the Atlantic. Figures from across the arts like Voltaire, Garrick, and Liszt were all veritable celebrities in their time, arousing curiosity and passionate loyalty from their “fans.” The rise of the press, new advertising techniques, and the marketing of leisure brought a profound transformation in the visibility of celebrities: private lives were now very much on public show. Nor was politics spared this cultural upheaval: Marie-Antoinette, George Washington, and Napoleon all experienced a political world transformed by the new demands of celebrity. And when the people suddenly appeared on the revolutionary scene, it was no longer enough to be legitimate; it was crucial to be popular too.
The Invention of Celebrity 1st Table of contents:
1: Voltaire in Paris
“The Most Famous Man in Europe”
Voltaire and Janot
Notes
2: Society of the Spectacle
The Birth of Stars: The Economics of Celebrity
Scandal at the Opera
“Something Idolatrous”
A European Celebrity
The Invention of the Fan(atic)
Notes
3: A First Media Revolution
The Visual Culture of Celebrity
Public Figurines
Idols and Puppets
“Heroes of the Hour”
Private Lives, Public Figures
Notes
4: From Glory to Celebrity
Trumpeting Fame
Conceptualizing Celebrity
Celebrity
“Chastisement for Merit”
Notes
5: Loneliness of the Celebrity
“The Celebrity of Misfortune”
Ami Jean-Jacques
Eccentricity, Exemplarity, Celebrity
The Burden of Celebrity
Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques
The Disfiguration
Notes
6: The Power of Celebrity
A Fashion Victim?
Revolutionary Popularity
The President is a Great Man
Sunset Island
Notes
7: Romanticism and Celebrity
Byromania
Prestige and Obligations
Women Seduced and Public Women
Virtuosos
Celebrity in America
Democratic Popularity and Popular Sovereignty
“Celebrities of the Hour”
Toward a New Age of Celebrity
Notes
Conclusion
Notes
Postface
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
Color Plates
End User License Agreement
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