edited by Anaïs Pédron and Clare Siviter
contributions by Laure Philip, Anna Senkiw, Clare Siviter, Blake Smith, Gabriel Wick, Ariane Fichtl, Chris Haffenden, Emrys Jones, Miranda Kiek, Antoine Lilti, Margaret Mason and Anaïs Pédron
University of Delaware Press, 2021
eISBN: 978-1-64453-214-0 | Paper: 978-1-64453-213-3 | Cloth: 978-1-64453-212-6

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850 is the first book to study and compare the concept of celebrity in France and Britain from 1750 to 1850 as the two countries transformed into the states we recognize today. It offers a transnational perspective by placing in dialogue the growing fields of celebrity studies in the two countries, especially by engaging with Antoine Lilti’s seminal work, The Invention of Celebrity, translated into English in 2017. With contributions from a diverse range of scholarly cultures, the volume has a firmly interdisciplinary scope over the time period 1750 to 1850, which was an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. Bringing together the fields of history, politics, literature, theater studies, and musicology, the volume employs a firmly interdisciplinary scope to explore an era marked by social, political, and cultural upheaval. The organization of the collection allows for new readings of the similarities and differences in the understanding of celebrity in Britain and France. Consequently, the volume builds upon the questions that are currently at the heart of celebrity studies.

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