| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Part I: Constructing charisma. Charisma and the making of imperial heroes in Britain and France, 1880-1914 / Edward Berenson ; "So writes the hand that swings the sword" : autograph hunting and royal charisma in the German empire, 1861-1888 / Eva Giloi ; The workings of royal celebrity : Wilhelm II as media emperor / Martin Kohlrausch -- Part II: Celebrity as performance. From the top : Liszt's aristocratic airs / Dana Gooley ; Celebrity gifting : Mallarmé and the poetics of fame / Emily Apter ; Rethinking female celebrity : the eccentric star of nineteenth-century France / Mary Louise Roberts -- Part III: The politics of fame. Byron, death, and the afterlife / Stephen Minta ; The historical actor / Peter Fritzsche ; Celebrity, patriotism, and Sarah Bernhardt / Kenneth E. Silver ; Heroes, celebrity, and the theater in fin-de-siècle France : Cyrano de Bergerac / Venita Datta -- Conclusion. Secular anointings : fame, celebrity, and charisma in the first century of mass culture / Leo Braudy |
| 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 fa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Mass media -- History -- 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
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Mass media
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| SUBJECT |
Europe -- History -- 1789-1900. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045705
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Berenson, Edward, 1949-
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Giloi, Eva, 1968-
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| ISBN |
9781845459772 |
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1845459776 |
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