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Constructing Charisma : Celebrity, Fame, and Power in Nineteenth-Century Europe / ed. by Eva Giloi, Edward Berenson.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845456948
  • 9781845459772
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.234 23
LOC classification:
  • P90 .C66 2013
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Constructing Charisma -- 1. Charisma and the Making of Imperial Heroes in Britain and France, 1880–1914 -- 2. “So Writes the Hand that Swings the Sword” -- 3. The Workings of Royal Celebrity -- Part II: Celebrity as Performance -- 4. From the Top -- 5. Celebrity Gifting -- 6. Rethinking Female Celebrity -- Part III: The Politics of Fame -- 7. Byron, Death, and the Afterlife -- 8. The Historical Actor -- 9. Celebrity, Patriotism, and Sarah Bernhardt -- 10 Heroes, Celebrity, and the Theater in Fin-de-Siècle France -- Conclusion: Secular Anointings -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Railroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass periodicals—the major technological advances of the 19th century seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another, creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon more evident than in the relationship between celebrity and fan, leader and follower, the famous and the unknown. By mid-century, heroes and celebrities constituted a new and powerful social force, as innovations in print and visual media made it possible for ordinary people to identify with the famous; to feel they knew the hero, leader, or "star"; to imagine that public figures belonged to their private lives. This volume examines the origins and nature of modern mass media and the culture of celebrity and fame they helped to create. Crossing disciplines and national boundaries, the book focuses on arts celebrities (Sarah Bernhardt, Byron and Liszt); charismatic political figures (Napoleon and Wilhelm II); famous explorers (Stanley and Brazza); and celebrated fictional characters (Cyrano de Bergerac).
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Constructing Charisma -- 1. Charisma and the Making of Imperial Heroes in Britain and France, 1880–1914 -- 2. “So Writes the Hand that Swings the Sword” -- 3. The Workings of Royal Celebrity -- Part II: Celebrity as Performance -- 4. From the Top -- 5. Celebrity Gifting -- 6. Rethinking Female Celebrity -- Part III: The Politics of Fame -- 7. Byron, Death, and the Afterlife -- 8. The Historical Actor -- 9. Celebrity, Patriotism, and Sarah Bernhardt -- 10 Heroes, Celebrity, and the Theater in Fin-de-Siècle France -- Conclusion: Secular Anointings -- Notes -- Notes on Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Railroads, telegraphs, lithographs, photographs, and mass periodicals—the major technological advances of the 19th century seemed to diminish the space separating people from one another, creating new and apparently closer, albeit highly mediated, social relationships. Nowhere was this phenomenon more evident than in the relationship between celebrity and fan, leader and follower, the famous and the unknown. By mid-century, heroes and celebrities constituted a new and powerful social force, as innovations in print and visual media made it possible for ordinary people to identify with the famous; to feel they knew the hero, leader, or "star"; to imagine that public figures belonged to their private lives. This volume examines the origins and nature of modern mass media and the culture of celebrity and fame they helped to create. Crossing disciplines and national boundaries, the book focuses on arts celebrities (Sarah Bernhardt, Byron and Liszt); charismatic political figures (Napoleon and Wilhelm II); famous explorers (Stanley and Brazza); and celebrated fictional characters (Cyrano de Bergerac).

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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