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 count

An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring how our modern idea of celebrity was created in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Black Celebrity examines representations of postbellum black athletes and artist-entertainers by novelists Caryl Phillips and Jeffery Renard Allen and poets Kev

Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898), wife of Habsburg Emperor Francis Joseph I, was celebrated as the most beautiful woman in Europe. Glamorous painted por

Since long before the age of celebrity activism, literary authors have used their public profiles and cultural capital to draw attention to a wide range of soci