Celebrity Across the Channel, 1750-1850

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-64453-212-6
Verlag: University of Delaware Press

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Performing Celebrity

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, offering a transnational perspective. It places in dialogue the growing field 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 fields, such as 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 questions that are currently at the heart of celebrity studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pédron, Anaïs

Siviter, Clare

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Über Autor(innen)

ANAÏS PÉDRON is an independent scholar based in London, England. She has studied at the Universities of Angers, Poitiers, and Nantes, and at Queen Mary University of London. She is widely interested in gender, female activism, literature, and sexuality. AnaÏs has published on female writers and activism in the eighteenth century in both English and French. She has recently published the article “‘Nous aussi nous sommes citoyennes’: Female Activism during the French Revolution” in Women in French Studies (Special Issue 2019), and the chapter “Olympe de Gouges, anti-esclavagiste et anticolonialiste?” in Les LumiÈres, l’esclavage et l’idÉologie coloniale: XVIIIe - XIXe siÈcle, ed. Pascale Pellerin (Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2020).
 
CLARE SIVITER is a theater historian of the longer French Revolutionary period and is lecturer in French Theatre at the University of Bristol. Before joining Bristol, she completed a PhD at the University of Warwick, and before taking up a post-doctoral position at the Centre d’Histoire Espaces et Cultures at the UniversitÉ Clermont Auvergne, France. Clare has published on French theater and culture of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in both English and French. Her monograph, Tragedy and Nation in the Age of Napoleon appeared with Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment in 2020. Clare is a member of the editorial board for Modern and Contemporary France.