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Tom Mole - Byron's Romantic Celebrity - 9781403999931 - V9781403999931
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Byron's Romantic Celebrity

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Description for Byron's Romantic Celebrity Hardback. Series: Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Num Pages: 241 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 147 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
This book offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture. It investigates the often strained interactions of artistic endeavour and commercial enterprise, and the place of celebrity culture in history of the self.

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Number of pages
241
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
Number of Pages
227
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403999931
SKU
V9781403999931
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About Tom Mole
TOM MOLE is Assistant Professor of English at McGill University, Canada. He is the editor of a volume of Blackwood's Magazine 1817-1825 (2006) and has published articles in Romanticism, the Keats-Shelley Journal, the Byron Journal and Nineteenth-Century Contexts.

Reviews for Byron's Romantic Celebrity
Joint Winner of the International Byron Society's Elma Dangerfield Prize 'This superb book provides an adroit analysis of the ways that a specifically Romantic celebrity culture informs Byron's oeuvre - from the Frame Bill ode to Don Juan. Yet it does much more than that. In fact, Mole manages to recontextualize the entire concept of Romantic fame ... Read more

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