Showing 1-9 of 9 items.
The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy
Self-Fashioning and Mutual Marketing
University of Delaware Press
The Theatre Couple in Early Modern Italy examines the mechanisms involved in forging a successful joint theatre career, with a focus on the artistic path of two professional performers: Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) and Virginia Ramponi (1583-ca.1631). It links their self-fashioning and marketing strategies to the context of post-Tridentine Italy but outlines the couple paradigm beyond that historical context.
The Celebrity Monarch
Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait
University of Delaware Press
The Celebrity Monarch argues that portraits of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) shaped both modern female portraiture and celebrity. Close study of portraits of Elisabeth, renowned as the most beautiful woman in Europe, along with her private collection of celebrity photography reveals her agency in shaping her own representation and the significance of her construction for modern Viennese artists and the emerging phenomenon of celebrity.
Making Stars
Biography and Celebrity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Edited by Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub
University of Delaware Press
Making Stars provides multiple perspectives on the simultaneous emergence of modern forms of life writing and celebrity culture in eighteenth-century Britain. Crossing multiple genres and media, contributors reveal the complex and varied ways in which these modern ways of thinking about individual identity mutually conditioned their emergence during this formative period.
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
Edited by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
University of Delaware Press
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800
Edited by Heather Ladd and Leslie Ritchie
University of Delaware Press
English Theatrical Anecdotes, 1660-1800 explores the theatrical anecdote’s role in the construction of stage fame in England’s emergent celebrity culture during the long eighteenth century, as well as the challenges of employing anecdotes in theatre scholarship today. Chapters in this book discuss anecdotes about actors, actresses, musicians, and other theatre people.
Carrying All before Her
Celebrity Pregnancy and the London Stage, 1689-1800
University of Delaware Press
Carrying All Before Her recovers the stories of six eighteenth-century celebrity actresses who performed during pregnancy, melding public and private, persona and person, domestic and professional labor and helping to shape wider social, medical, and political conversations about gender, sexuality, pregnancy, and motherhood. Their stories deepen our understanding of celebrity, repertory, and theatre’s connection to a wider social world, and challenge notions of women’s agency and power in and beyond the professional theatre.
Black Celebrity
Contemporary Representations of Postbellum Athletes and Artists
University of Delaware Press
Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, Adrian Matejka, and Tyehimba Jess. Inhabiting the perspectives of boxer Jack Johnson and musicians “Blind Tom” Wiggins and Sissieretta Jones, along with several others, these writers both revise understandings of black celebrity history and evince the through-lines between the postbellum era and our own time.
Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850
Edited by Anaïs Pédron and Clare Siviter
University of Delaware Press
Scholars often focus on the period from 1750 to 1850 as the birth of “celebrity”, but this volume is the first to offer a sustained comparative study of celebrity in Britain and France during this period. Through a series of national and international case studies bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, it unearths how celebrity was developed, theorized, and consumed on either side of the Channel.
Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750–1850
Edited by Anaïs Pédron and Clare Siviter
University of Delaware Press
Scholars often focus on the period from 1750 to 1850 as the birth of “celebrity”, but this volume is the first to offer a sustained comparative study of celebrity in Britain and France during this period. Through a series of national and international case studies bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, it unearths how celebrity was developed, theorized, and consumed on either side of the Channel.
Stay Informed
Subscribe nowRecent News