List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Nora Nachumi and Kristina Straub
PART I
REPRESENTING CELEBRITY ON THE STAGE AND THE PAGE
1 The Periodical and the Prism: Two Ways of Working at Celebrity in the Careers of Catherine Clive, Eliza Haywood, and Charlotte Charke
Stuart Sherman
2 Embodied Stage Biography and Celebrity in the Eighteenth Century
Semane Parsons
3 Image/Counterimage: Contesting Celebrity in Graphic Satire
Heather McPherson
PART II
MARKETING CELEBRITY IN THE MATERIAL WORLD
4 Modular Pope: Letters, Portraits, and the Collectible Celebrity
Sören Hammerschmidt
5 Biographical Fictions: Improvisation, Temporality, and the Celebrated Gunning Sisters, 1750 to Today
Kevin Bourque
6 Art and Merchandise, Followers and Fragility: Creating the Blueprint for Animal Celebrity
Glynis Ridley
PART III
LIFE WRITING AS SELF-DEFENSE
7 Neglected Genius: William Henry Ireland's Quest for Anonymous Celebrity
Jack Lynch
8 Interpreting a Life: Theophilus Cibber, Celebrity Biography, and Public Adjudication
Elaine McGirr
9 Legal Stardom: Law, Life Writing, and Celebrity in the Case of Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore
Sarah Ailwood
PART IV
THE BODY AND THE BODY POLITIC
10 Creating Celebratory Memory: The Tombeaux des Princes
Anne Betty Weinshenker
11 Embodied Politics: Marlborough, Celebrity, and Secret History
Rebecca Tierney-Hynes
12 The Everyday Celebrity of "Sir" Jeffrey Dunstan, Mayor of Garrat
Miriam Wallace
PART V
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?
13 A "Universally Sorrowful Sensation": National Mourning, Narrative, and Celebrity in the Posthumous Biographies of Princess Charlotte Augusta
Teri Doerksen
14 Spectacular Materials: The Afterlives of Murderess Mary Blandy
Kirsten T. Saxton
15 Extra-illustration, Participatory Biography, and the Construction of Celebrity
Jane Wessel
Notes on Contributors
Index
