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Bettymania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
Jeffrey Kahan
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Description for Bettymania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
Hardback. Num Pages: 226 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: GBC; HB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 168 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
In 1804, a kind of madness descended upon Britain. A thirteen-year-old boy, William-Henry West Betty, arrived and, in a seeming instant, took Ireland, Scotland, and England by storm. Crowds were so intent upon securing tickets for Betty's performances that officers were called out to stop rioters in the streets. Like the groupies who would a century and a half later mob Elvis or The Beatles, fans raved and regularly fainted when near "the divine Master Betty." The Caledonian Mercury reported that on Betty's first London appearance, the "screams of the females were very distressing, and several fainted away." The Morning ... Read more
In 1804, a kind of madness descended upon Britain. A thirteen-year-old boy, William-Henry West Betty, arrived and, in a seeming instant, took Ireland, Scotland, and England by storm. Crowds were so intent upon securing tickets for Betty's performances that officers were called out to stop rioters in the streets. Like the groupies who would a century and a half later mob Elvis or The Beatles, fans raved and regularly fainted when near "the divine Master Betty." The Caledonian Mercury reported that on Betty's first London appearance, the "screams of the females were very distressing, and several fainted away." The Morning ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lehigh University Press United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Number of Pages
226
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611460698
SKU
V9781611460698
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Ref
99-15
About Jeffrey Kahan
Jeffrey Kahan is professor of English at the University of La Verne.
Reviews for Bettymania and the Birth of Celebrity Culture
Kahan’s study makes an excellent case for why Betty should be studied alongside Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Fanny Kemble, Dorothy Jordan, Elizabeth Farren, Mary Robinson, Mary Wells, Charles Macklin, Edmund Kean, and others, allowing us to expand and redefine our conceptions of celebrity then and now.
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