Intimacy and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Literary Culture Public Interiors [Hardcover]

This book provides an expansive view of celebritys intimate dimensions. In the process, it offers a timely reassessment of how notions of private and public were negotiated by writers, readers, actors and audiences in the early to mid-eighteenth century. The essays assembled here explore the lives of a wide range of figures: actors and actresses, but also politicians, churchmen, authors and rogues; some who courted celebrity openly and others who seemed to achieve it almost inadvertently. At a time when the topic of celebritys origins is attracting unprecedented scholarly attention, this collection is an important, pioneering resource.

1. Introduction:&nbsp;Emrys D. Jones and Victoria Joule.- 2.&nbsp;Nell Gwyns Breasts and Colley Cibbers Shirts: Celebrity Actors and their Famous Parts:&nbsp;Elaine McGirr.- 3.&nbsp;Anne Oldfields Domestic Interiors: Auctions, Material Culture and Celebrity: Claudine van Hensbergen.- 4.&nbsp;Peeping and Public Intimacy in Susanna Centlivres The Busy Body (1709):&nbsp;Victoria Joule.- 5.&nbsp;Garrick, Dying:&nbsp;James Harriman-Smith.- 6.&nbsp;Doctor Sacheverell and the Politics of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary Britain:&nbsp;Brian Cowan.- 7.&nbsp;Farcical Politics: Fieldings Public Emotion:&nbsp;Rebecca Tierney-Hynes.- 8. A Man in Love: Intimacy and Political Celebrity in the Early Eighteenth Century:&nbsp;Emrys D. Jones.- 9.&nbsp;The ARMS of Friendship: John Duntons Platonic Aquisitions:&nbsp;Nicola Parsons.- 10.&nbsp;I make a very shining figure: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the intimate publics of authorship:&nbsp;Clare Brant.- 11.&nbsp;Foote, Fox, and the Mysterious Mrs Grieve: Print Celebrity and Imposture:&nbsp;Ruth Scobie.- 12.&nbsp;Notorietys public interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at Ranelagh:&nbsp;George Rousseau.- 13.&ló<