Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
Description
This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture. It investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, and the place of celebrity culture in history of the self.
Keywords
FAMEROMANTICISMBYRON, GEORGE GORDON BYRON, BARON, 1788-1824POETRY_HISTORY AND CRITICISM
2007Book
Author(s)Tom Mole
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781403999931
LanguageEnglish
