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: Emrys D. Jones and Victoria Joule.- 2. Nell Gwyns Breasts and Colley Cibbers Shirts: Celebrity Actors and their Famous Parts: Elaine McGirr.- 3. Anne Oldfields Domestic Interiors: Auctions, Material Culture and Celebrity: Claudine van Hensbergen.- 4. Peeping and Public Intimacy in Susanna Centlivres The Busy Body (1709): Victoria Joule.- 5. Garrick, Dying: James Harriman-Smith.- 6. Doctor Sacheverell and the Politics of Celebrity in Post-Revolutionary Britain: Brian Cowan.- 7. Farcical Politics: Fieldings Public Emotion: Rebecca Tierney-Hynes.- 8. A Man in Love: Intimacy and Political Celebrity in the Early Eighteenth Century: Emrys D. Jones.- 9. The ARMS of Friendship: John Duntons Platonic Aquisitions: Nicola Parsons.- 10. I make a very shining figure: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the intimate publics of authorship: Clare Brant.- 11. Foote, Fox, and the Mysterious Mrs Grieve: Print Celebrity and Imposture: Ruth Scobie.- 12. Notorietys public interiors: Mid-Georgians Combining Celebrity and Intimacy, with an Appendix on the Rotunda at Ranelagh: George Rousseau.- 13.&ls0