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Selling Celebrity: Actors’ Portraits in Bell’s Shakespeare and Bell’s British Theatre
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2012) 36 (1): 54–81.
Published: 01 January 2012
... culture of theatrical celebrity. While paintings and engraved prints of actors mostly peddled a mode of celebrity that was sustained by audience applause within the theater walls, Bell’s illustrations created a parallel visibility for the performers outside the theater, which was only tenuously...
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“Genius Thus Munificently Employed!!!”: Philanthropy and Celebrity in the Theaters of Garrick and Siddons
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 55–84.
Published: 01 September 2013
...Danielle Spratt The essay argues that David Garrick and Sarah Siddons—two of the most financially successful celebrities of their time—cultivated their parental public images in print and portrait culture by capitalizing on the level of their participation in benefits for actors and in the Drury...
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Appearing Nightly: Overexpression, Overexposure, and Celebrity on the Eighteenth-Century Stage
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (3): 76–80.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Misty G. Anderson Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Fawcett Julia . Spectacular Disappearances: Celebrity and Privacy, 1696–1801 ( Ann Arbor : Univ. of Michigan , 2016 ). Pp. 304. $65 ...
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Art and the Making of Celebrity
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (3): 115–119.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Ersy Contogouris R e v i e w E s s a y Eighteenth- Century Life Volume 43, Number 3, September 2019 doi 10.1215/00982601-7725771 Copyright 2019 by Duke University Press 1 1 5 Art and the Making of Celebrity Ersy Contogouris Université de Montréal Heather McPherson. Art and Celebrity in the Age...
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“Modern Biography”: Form, Function, and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Genre Theory
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (2): 24–55.
Published: 01 April 2021
... ubiquitous difficulties arising from their consensus that “fame or celebrity among us in their generation” was “the grand principle” on which biography was founded: first, how to “do justice” to a person on the basis of sources and testimonials that reflected the partisanship of a country “rent by faction...
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The Reception History of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as a Celebrity Female Traveler
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (2): 58–80.
Published: 01 April 2025
...Yoojung Choi Abstract Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's legacy as a celebrated female traveler offers a compelling case study for understanding how critics and readers sought to make sense of a woman's exceptional mobility. Her letters, written during her time in Turkey and Italy, were highly sought...
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Curating Will & Jane
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 1–35.
Published: 01 April 2016
...Janine Barchas; Kristina Straub “Curating Will & Jane” provides an overview of the exhibition, Will & Jane: Shakespeare, Austen, and the Cult of Celebrity , opening at the Folger Shakespeare Library in August 2016. Shakespeare and Austen became literary celebrities roughly 200 years after...
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John Wolcot and “The Anecdotic Itch”: Peter Pindar, Biography, and Historiography in the 1780s
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (2): 88–118.
Published: 01 April 2016
... Boswell, Esq on his Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with the celebrated Dr Johnson (1786) and Bozzy and Piozzi, or, The British Biographers, A Town Eclogue (1786), Peter critiques the tendency of Johnson's biographers to represent him not through an account of his great work, but through trivial...
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“Her Later Works Happily Forgotten”: Rewriting Frances Burney and Old Age
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2013) 37 (3): 1–28.
Published: 01 September 2013
... into Burney’s conceptions of and ruminations on authorial celebrity in old age. The narration of the Memoirs provides a compelling picture of what an aged woman author was up against in fashioning a persona in her text. Examining the complicated reception of the Memoirs also advances our discussion of Burney’s...
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Dispensing with Power: A Response to Three Papers on Historical Criticism
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (3): 89–95.
Published: 01 September 2017
... and increasingly widespread belief that “close reading is … totally inappropriate as a method of studying literary history.” We need to nurture and celebrate scholars who understand the importance of historical evidence, even when that evidence is incomplete, and who also understand the subtleties of rhetorical...
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Chivalry, Commerce, and Generosity: Godwin on Economic Equality
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2017) 41 (2): 43–58.
Published: 01 April 2017
... engagement with a variety of eighteenth-century discourses, all invested, in varying ways, in the age's dominant historiographical trope celebrating extant commercial society as the apogee of social development. Copyright 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Godwin St. Leon property historiography...
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“ Bunny ! O! Bunny !”: The Burney Family in Oceania
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and imagined costumes for self-promotion, and to assert expertise, fashionability, and cosmopolitanism. Celebrations of James Burney’s adventures in Oceania, however, were disturbed by his recollections of violent scenes in New Zealand, which were so traumatic that he could only mention them in whispers...
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“By the Author of Fanny Hill ”: Selling John Cleland
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2019) 43 (2): 38–57.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Hal Gladfelder In the wake of the court cases that led to the clearing for publication of Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure , a handful of publishers rushed other more or less erotic eighteenth-century novels into print, eager to cash in on the new celebrity of Fanny Hill (as it was usually known...
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William Falconer: Sailor, Poet, Lexicographer
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (2): 13–45.
Published: 01 April 2023
...William Jones William Falconer (1732–1770) suffered a catastrophic shipwreck as a young man, which became the subject of his celebrated poem The Shipwreck (1762), with revised and extended editions in 1764 and 1769. He is also the compiler of the Dictionary of the Marine which remained the standard...
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Face Value: Toward a Theory of Eighteenth-Century Portraiture
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2023) 47 (1): 1–34.
Published: 01 January 2023
...Bradford Mudge This essay postulates a field theory of the portrait, one capable of explaining both portrait objects and the forces to which they were subject. It does so not with the intention of celebrating theoretical mastery, but to facilitate three comparatively modest claims: first...
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Porcelain and Catholic Enlightenment: The Zwettler Tafelaufsatz
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2021) 45 (3): 116–134.
Published: 01 September 2021
... Tafelaufsatz—the great porcelain table centerpiece that was created in 1768 as part of a multimodal baroque celebration of Abbot Rayner Kollmann's jubilee at the Cistercian monastery of Zwettl in Lower Austria. Here the porcelain medium enabled the Cistercian brethren to argue for the continuing role...
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“Bookmaking Out of the Remains of the Dead”: George Ballard’s Memoirs of Several Ladies (1752)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (2): 28–46.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Melanie Bigold This article reconsiders the importance of antiquarian interests and research methods in the making of George Ballard’s encyclopedic biography of learned women, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages...
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“Enchanting Witchery ”: Sir Joshua Reynolds's Portrait of Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (1): 32–58.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Bradford Mudge Sir Joshua's Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra is a celebrated picture, one often taken as a representative of what are referred to as Reynolds's “courtesan portraits,” portraits of women—actresses, mistresses, models, prostitutes—who, in a variety of ways and with varying degrees...
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Reading The Tatler in 1710: Polite Print and the Spalding Gentlemen's Society
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2016) 40 (3): 1–35.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Valerie Rumbold The relationship between the Spalding Gentlemen's Society (founded 1710) and Richard Steele's Tatler (1709–11) achieved its most influential commemoration in Nichols's Literary Anecdotes (1812). While there were indeed shared ideals and anxieties that aligned this celebrated example...
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Trivial Pursuit: The Anecdote as Evidence in Theater History
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 147–152.
Published: 01 January 2025
... actors and actresses who dominated it, were particularly popular. The new collection, English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660 – 1800 , examines these “short, often humorous and titillating, sometimes moralistic tales of theater people” (1) and considers the ways they contributed to the rise of celebrity...
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